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�This is a long but vital read ! Pastor Bob

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�� Book of Enoch

�� Section I. Chapters I‑XXXVI

�� Introduction

�� I‑V. Parable of Enoch on the Future Lot of the Wicked and

the

�� Righteous.

�� 1

�� 1 The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed

the elect and righteous, who will be 2

�� living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and

godless are to be removed. And he took up

�� his parable and said ‑‑Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes

were opened by God, saw the vision of

�� the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me,

and from them I heard everything, and

�� from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation,

but for a remote one which is 3 for to

�� come. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable

concerning them:

�� The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,

�� 4 And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on

Mount Sinai,

�� [And appear from His camp]

�� And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven

of heavens.

�� 5 And all shall be smitten with fear

�� And the Watchers shall quake,

�� And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the

ends of the earth.

�� 6 And the high mountains shall be shaken,

�� And the high hills shall be made low,

� ��And shall melt like wax before the flame.

�� 7 And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,

�� And all that is upon the earth shall perish,

�� And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).

�� 8 But with the righteous He will make peace,

�� And will protect the elect,

�� And mercy shall be upon them.

�� And they shall all belong to God,

�� And they shall be prospered,

�� And they shall all be blessed.

�� And He will help them all,

�� And light shall appear unto them,

�� And He will make peace with them.

�� 9 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy

ones

��To execute judgement upon all,

�� And to destroy all the ungodly:

�� And to convict all flesh

�� Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have

ungodly committed,

�� And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have

spoken against Him.

�� 2

�� 1 Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how

they do not change their orbits, and the

�� luminaries which are in the heaven, how they all rise and set

in order each in its season, and 2

�� transgress not against their appointed order. Behold ye the

earth, and give heed to the things which

�� take place upon it from first to last, how steadfast they are,

how none of the things upon earth 3

��change, but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the

summer and the winter, how the whole

�� earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie

upon it.

�� 3

�� Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees seem as

though they had withered and shed all their

�� leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage

but retain the old foliage from two to

�� three years till the new comes.

�� 4

�� And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is

above the earth over against it. And you

�� seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and

the earth also burns with glowing heat,

�� and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason

of its heat.

�� 5

�� 1 Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green

leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed

�� and know with regard to all His works, and recognize how He

that liveth for ever hath made them so.

�� 2 And all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and

all the tasks which they accomplish for

�� Him, and their tasks change not, but according as God hath

ordained so is it done. 3 And behold how

�� the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change

not their tasks from His commandments'.

�� 4 But ye ‑‑ye have not been steadfast, nor done the

commandments of the Lord,

�� But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words

�� With your impure mouths against His greatness.

�� Oh, ye hard‑hearted, ye shall find no peace.

�� 5 Therefore shall ye execrate your days,

�� And the years of your life shall perish,

�� And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in

eternal execration,

�� And ye shall find no mercy.

�� 6a In those days ye shall make your names an eternal

execration unto all the righteous,

�� b And by you shall all who curse, curse,

�� And all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,

�� 7c And for you the godless there shall be a curse.

�� 6d And all the ... shall rejoice,

�� e And there shall be forgiveness of sins,

�� f And every mercy and peace and forbearance:

�� g There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light.

�� i And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation,

�� j But on you all shall abide a curse.

�� 7a But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace,

�� b And they shall inherit the earth.

�� 8 And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom,

�� And they shall all live and never again sin,

�� Either through ungodliness or through pride:

�� But they who are wise shall be humble.

�� 9 And they shall not again transgress,

�� Nor shall they sin all the days of their life,

�� Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath,

�� But they shall complete the number of the days of their life.

�� And their lives shall be increased in peace,

�� And the years of their joy shall be multiplied,

�� In eternal gladness and peace,

�� All the days of their life.

�� VI‑XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralization of

Mankind: the

�� Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The

Dooms

�� pronounced by God on the Angels of the Messianic

Kingdom‑‑ (a

�� Noah fragment).

�� 6

�� 1 And it came to pass when the children of men had

multiplied that in those days were born unto 2

�� them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the

children of the heaven, saw and lusted after

�� them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives

from among the children of men 3 and

�� beget us children.' And Semj�z�, who was their leader, said

unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed

�� agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the

penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered

�� him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves

by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon

�� this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together

and bound themselves 6 by mutual

�� imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who

descended in the days of Jared on the

�� summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon,

because they had sworn 7 and bound

�� themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are

the names of their leaders: Sam�az�z, their

�� leader, Ar�k�ba, R�m��l, K�kab��l, T�m��l, R�m��l, D�n�l,

�z�q��l, Bar�q�j�l, 8 As��l, Arm�r�s,

�� Bat�r�l, An�n�l, Zaq��l, Sams�p��l, Satar�l, T�r�l, J�mj��l,

Sari�l. These are their chiefs of tens.

�� 7

�� 1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves

wives, and each chose for himself one,

�� and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves

with them, and they taught them charms 2

�� and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them

acquainted with plants. And they 3

�� became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height

was three thousand ells: Who consumed 4

�� all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer

sustain them, the giants turned against 5

�� them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against

birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and 6 fish,

�� and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then

the earth laid accusation against the

�� lawless ones.

�� 8

�� 1 And Az�z�l taught men to make swords, and knives, and

shields, and breastplates, and made

�� known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working

them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and

�� the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and

all kinds of costly stones, and all 2

�� colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and

they committed fornication, and they 3

�� were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.

Semj�z� taught enchantments, and

�� root‑cuttings, 'Arm�r�s the resolving of enchantments,

Bar�q�j�l (taught) astrology, K�kab�l the

�� constellations, �z�q��l the knowledge of the clouds, Araqi�l

the signs of the earth, Shamsi�l the signs

�� of the sun, and Sari�l the course of the moon. And as men

perished, they cried, and their cry went up

�� to heaven...

�� 9

�� 1 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down

from heaven and saw much blood

�� being 2 shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being

wrought upon the earth. And they said one to

�� another: 'The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of

their cryingst up to the gates of heaven.

�� 3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men

make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause

�� 4 before the Most High."' And they said to the Lord of the

ages: 'Lord of lords, God of gods, King of

�� kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth)

unto all the generations of the 5 ages,

�� and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the

ages! Thou hast made all things, and power

�� over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in

Thy sight, and Thou seest all 6 things,

�� and nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Az�z�l

hath done, who hath taught all

�� unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets

which were (preserved) in heaven, which 7

�� men were striving to learn: And Semj�z�, to whom Thou hast

given authority to bear rule over his

�� associates. And they have gone to the daughters of men

upon the earth, and have slept with the 9

�� women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them

all kinds of sins. And the women have 10

�� borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with

blood and unrighteousness. And now,

�� behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and

making their suit to the gates of heaven, and

�� their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because

of the lawless deeds which are 11

�� wrought on the earth. And Thou knowest all things before

they come to pass, and Thou seest these

�� things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us

what we are to do to them in regard to

�� these.'

�� 10

�� 1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and

sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, 2

�� and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide

thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is

�� approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a

deluge is about to come 3 upon the whole

�� earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him

that he may escape 4 and his seed may be

�� preserved for all the generations of the world.' And again the

Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Az�z�l hand

�� and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an

opening 5 in the desert, which is in D�d��l, and

�� cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks,

and cover him with darkness, and let

�� him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may 6,7

not see light. And on the day of the great

�� judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth

which the angels have corrupted, and

�� proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the

plague, and that all the children of men may

�� not perish through all the secret things that the 8 Watchers

have disclosed and have taught their sons.

�� And the whole earth has been corrupted 9 through the works

that were taught by Az�z�l: to him

�� ascribe all sin.' And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against

the bastards and the reprobates, and

�� against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children

of fornication and] the children of the

�� Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]:

send them one against the other that they

�� may destroy each other in 10 battle: for length of days shall

they not have. And no request that they

�� (i.e. their fathers) make of thee shall be granted unto their

fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live

�� an eternal life, and 11 that each one of them will live five

hundred years.' And the Lord said unto

�� Michael: 'Go, bind Semj�z� and his associates who have

united themselves with women so as to have

�� defiled themselves 12 with them in all their uncleanness. And

when their sonshave slain one another,

�� and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones,

bind them fast for seventy generations in the

�� valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their

consummation, till the judgement that is

�� 13 for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they

shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and 14 to

�� the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for

ever. And whosoever shall be

�� condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound

together with them to the end of all 15

�� generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and

the children of the Watchers, because 16

�� they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face

of the earth and let every evil work

�� come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth

appear: and it shall prove a blessing; the

�� works of righteousness and truth' shall be planted in truth and

joy for evermore.

�� 17 And then shall all the righteous escape,

�� And shall live till they beget thousands of children,

�� And all the days of their youth and their old age

�� Shall they complete in peace.

�� 18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness,

and shall all be planted with trees and 19 be

�� full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it,

and they shall plant vines on it: and the

�� vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance,

and as for all the seed which is sown

�� thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each

measure of olives shall yield 20 ten

�� presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all

oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from

�� all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that

is wrought upon the earth 21 destroy from

�� off the earth. And all the children of men shall become

righteous, and all nations 22 shall offer

�� adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And

the earth shall be cleansed from all

�� defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and

from all torment, and I will never again send

�� (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.

�� 11

�� 1 And in those days I will open the store chambers of

blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send 2

�� them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the

children of men. And truth and peace shall

�� be associated together throughout all the days of the world

and throughout all the generations of men.'

�� XII‑XVI. Dream‑Vision of Enoch: his Intercession for

Az�z�l and

�� the Fallen Angels: and his Announcement of their first

and final

�� Doom.

�� 12

�� 1 Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the

children of men knew where he was 2

�� hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him.

And his activities had to do with the

�� Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones. 3 And I

Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and

�� the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers 4 called me ‑‑Enoch

the scribe‑‑ and said to me: 'Enoch,

�� thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of

the heaven who have left the high heaven,

�� the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with

women, and have done as the children of

�� earth do, and have taken unto themselves 5 wives: "Ye have

wrought great destruction on the earth:

�� And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness 6 of sin: and

inasmuch as they delight themselves in their

�� children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see,

and over the destruction of their children

�� shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity,

but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'

�� 13

�� 1 And Enoch went and said: 'Az�z�l, thou shalt have no

peace: a severe sentence has gone forth 2

�� against thee to put thee in bonds: And thou shalt not have

toleration nor request granted to thee,

�� because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and

because of all the works of godlessness 3

�� and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men.'

Then I went and spoke to them all 4

�� together, and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling

seized them. And they besought me to draw

�� up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to

read their petition in the presence 5 of

�� the Lord of heaven. For from thenceforward they could not

speak (with Him) nor lift up their 6 eyes

�� to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been

condemned. Then I wrote out their petition,

�� and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds

individually and in regard to their 7 requests

�� that they should have forgiveness and length. And I went off

and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the

�� land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their

petition till I fell 8 asleep. And behold a

�� dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw

visions of chastisement, and a voice

�� came bidding (me) to tell it to the sons of heaven, and

reprimand them. 9 And when I awaked, I came

�� unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together,

weeping in 10 'Abelsj��l, which is between

�� Lebanon and S�n�s�r, with their faces covered. And I

recounted before them all the visions which I

�� had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of

righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly

�� Watchers.

�� 14

�� 1 The book of the words of righteousness, and of the

reprimand of the eternal Watchers in

�� accordance 2 with the command of the Holy Great One in that

vision. I saw in my sleep what I will

�� now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my

mouth: which the Great One has given to

�� men to 3 converse therewith and understand with the heart.

As He has created and given to man the

�� power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He

created me also and given me the power of

�� reprimanding 4 the Watchers, the children of heaven. I wrote

out your petition, and in my vision it

�� appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you

throughout all the days of eternity, and

�� that judgement 5 has been finally passed upon you: yea (your

petition) will not be granted unto you.

�� And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto

all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the

�� decree 6 has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the

world. And (that) previously you shall have

�� seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have

no pleasure in them, but they shall fall

�� before 7 you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf

shall not be granted, nor yet on your

�� own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the

words contained in the writing which I have 8

�� written. And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the

vision clouds invited me and a mist

�� summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings

sped and hastened me, and the winds in

�� 9 the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore

me into heaven. And I went in till I drew

�� nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by

tongues of fire: and it began to affright 10

�� me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a

large house which was built of crystals: and

�� the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of

crystals, and its groundwork was 11 of

�� crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the

lightnings, and between them were 12 fiery

�� cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming

fire surrounded the walls, and its 13 portals

�� blazed with fire. And I entered into that house, and it was hot

as fire and cold as ice: there 14 were no

�� delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling gat

hold upon me. And as I quaked 15 and

�� trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo!

there was a second house, greater 16

�� than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me,

and it was built of flames of fire. And in

�� every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence

and extent that I cannot describe to 17 you

�� its splendour and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and

above it were lightnings and the path 18 of

�� the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked

and saw therein a lofty throne: its

�� appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the

shining sun, and there was the vision of 19

�� cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of

flaming fire so that I could not look 20

�� thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment

shone more brightly than the sun and 21

�� was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter

and could behold His face by reason 22 of

�� the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him.

The flaming fire was round about Him, and

�� a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw

nigh Him: ten thousand times 23 ten

�� thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor.

And the most holy ones who were 24 nigh

�� to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. And until

then I had been prostrate on my face,

�� trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and

said to me: 'Come hither, 25 Enoch, and

�� hear my word.' And one of the holy ones came to me and

waked me, and He made me rise up and

�� approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.

�� 15

�� 1 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice:

'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous 2 man

�� and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my

voice. And go, say to the Watchers of

�� heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You

should intercede" for men, and not men 3 for

�� you: Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal

heaven, and lain with women, and defiled

�� yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to

yourselves wives, and done like the children 4 of

�� earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? And though ye

were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life,

�� you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and

have begotten (children) with the blood of

�� flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and

blood as those also do who die 5 and

�� perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they

might impregnate them, and beget 6 children

�� by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.

But you were formerly 7 spiritual, living

�� the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world.

And therefore I have not appointed

�� wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in

heaven is their dwelling. 8 And now, the

�� giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be

called evil spirits upon 9 the earth, and on

�� the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded

from their bodies; because they are born

�� from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and

primal origin; 10 they shall be evil spirits

�� on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As for the

spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their

�� dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born

upon the earth, on the earth shall be their

�� dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress,

destroy, attack, do battle, and work

�� destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no

food, but nevertheless 12 hunger and thirst,

�� and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the

children of men and against the women,

�� because they have proceeded from them.

�� 16

�� 1 From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of

the giants, from the souls of whose flesh

�� the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring

judgement ‑‑thus shall they destroy until

�� the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which

the age shall be 2 consummated, over the

�� Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly

consummated." And now as to the watchers who

� ��have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been aforetime

in heaven, (say 3 to them): "You have

�� been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been

revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones,

�� and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made

known to the women, and through these

�� mysteries women and men work much evil on earth." 4 Say

to them therefore: "You have no peace."'

�� XVII‑XXXVI. Enoch's Journeys through the Earth and

Sheol.

�� XVII‑XIX. The First Journey.

�� 17

�� 1 And they took and brought me to a place in which those

who were there were like flaming fire, 2

�� and, when they wished, they appeared as men. And they

brought me to the place of darkness, and to

�� a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.

And I saw the places of the luminaries and

�� the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the

uttermost depths, where were 4 a fiery bow

�� and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the

lightnings. And they took 5 me to the living

�� waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every

setting of the sun. And I came to a river of

�� fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into

the great sea towards 6 the west. I saw

�� the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great

darkness, and went 7 to the place where

�� no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter

and the place 8 whence all the waters of

�� the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth

and the mouth of the deep.

�� 18

�� 1 I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had

furnished with them the whole creation 2 and

�� the firm foundations of the earth. And I saw the corner‑stone

of the earth: I saw the four 3 winds

�� which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. And I

saw how the winds stretch out the

�� vaults of heaven, and have their station between heaven and

earth: these are the pillars 4 of the

�� heaven. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the

circumference of the sun and 5 all the stars

�� to their setting. I saw the winds on the earth carrying the

clouds: I saw the paths 6 of the angels. I saw

�� at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above.

And I proceeded and saw a place which

�� burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of

magnificent stones, 7 three towards the east,

�� and three towards the south. And as for those towards the

east, one was of coloured stone, and one

�� of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of

red stone. 8 But the middle one reached

��to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit

of the 9,10 throne was of sapphire. And

�� I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains Is a region

the end of the great earth: there the

�� heavens were completed. And I saw a deep abyss, with

columns of heavenly fire, and among them I

�� saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike

towards 12 the height and towards the

�� depth. And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no

firmament of the heaven above, and no

�� firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it,

and no 13 birds, but it was a waste and

�� horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning

mountains, 14 and to me, when I inquired

�� regarding them, The angel said: 'This place is the end of

heaven and 15 earth: this has become a prison

�� for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll

over the fire are they which have

�� transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning

of 16 their rising, because they did not

�� come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with

them, and bound them till the time when

�� their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand

years.'

�� 19

�� 1 And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have

connected themselves with women, and

�� their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling

mankind and shall lead them astray into

�� sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand,) till the

day of the great judgement in 2 which

�� they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the

women also of the angels who 3 went astray

�� shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the

ends of all things: and no man shall see

�� as I have seen.

�� XX. Names and Functions of the Seven Archangels.

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�� 1,2 And these are the names of the holy angels who watch.

Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is 3 over

�� the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels,

who is over the spirits of men. 4,5

�� Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the

world of the luminaries. Michael, one 6 of

�� the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of

mankind and over chaos. Saraq��l, 7 one of

�� the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the

spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy 8 angels, who

�� is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel,

one of the holy angels, whom God set

�� over those who rise.

�� XXI‑XXXVI. The Second Journey of Enoch.

�� XXI. Preliminary and final Place of Punishment of the

fallen Angels (stars).

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�� 1,2 And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw

there something horrible: I saw neither 3

�� a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place

chaotic and horrible. And there I saw 4 seven

�� stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains

and burning with fire. Then 5 I said: 'For

�� what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been

cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one of

�� the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them,

and said: 'Enoch, why 6 dost thou ask,

�� and why art thou eager for the truth? These are of the number

of the stars of heaven, which have

�� transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound

here till ten thousand years, 7 the time

�� entailed by their sins, are consummated.' And from thence I

went to another place, which was still

�� more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a

great fire there which burnt and blazed,

� ��and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great

descending columns of 8 fire: neither its

�� extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture. Then I

said: 'How 9 fearful is the place and

�� how terrible to look upon!' Then Uriel answered me, one of

the holy angels who was with me, and

�� said unto me: 'Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?'

And 10 I answered: 'Because of this

�� fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And

he said unto me: 'This place is the prison

�� of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'

�� XXII. Sheol or the Underworld.

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�� 1 And thence I went to another place, and he mountain [and]

of hard rock. 2 And there was in it four

�� hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth

are the hollow places and deep and

�� dark to look at. 3 Then Raphael answered, one of the holy

angels who was with me, and said unto

�� me: 'These hollow places have been created for this very

purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the

�� dead should 4 assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the

children of men should assemble here.

�� And these places have been made to receive them till the day

of their judgement and till their

�� appointed period [till the period appointed], till the great

judgement (comes) upon them.' I saw (the

�� spirit of) a dead man making suit, 5 and his voice went forth to

heaven and made suit. And I asked

�� Raphael the angel who was 6 with me, and I said unto him:

'This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it,

�� whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven?' 7 And

he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit

�� which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and

he makes his suit against him till his

�� seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is

annihilated from amongst the seed of

�� men.' 8 The I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow

places: 'Why is one separated from the

�� other?' 9 And he answered me and said unto me: 'These

three have been made that the spirits of the

�� dead might be separated. And such a division has been make

(for) the spirits of the righteous, in

�� which there is the bright spring of 10 water. And such has

been made for sinners when they die and

�� are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed

on them in their 11 lifetime. Here their

�� spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of

judgement and punishment and torment

�� of those who curse for ever and retribution for their spirits.

There 12 He shall bind them for ever. And

�� such a division has been made for the spirits of those who

make their suit, who make disclosures

�� concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the

days 13 of the sinners. Such has been made

�� for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners,

who were complete in transgression, and of

�� the transgressors they shall be companions: but their spirits

shall not be slain in the day of judgement

�� nor shall they be raised from thence.' 14 The I blessed the

Lord of glory and said: 'Blessed be my

�� Lord, the Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for ever.'

�� XXIII. The fire that deals with the Luminaries of

Heaven.

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�� 1,2 From thence I went to another place to the west of the

ends of the earth. And I saw a burning 3 fire

�� which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day

or night but (ran) regularly. And 4 I

�� asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' Then Raguel,

one of the holy angels who was with me,

�� answered me and said unto me: 'This course of fire which

thou hast seen is the fire in the west which

�� persecutes all the luminaries of heaven.'

�� XXIV‑XXV. The Seven Mountains in the North‑West and

the Tree of Life.

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�� 1 And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he

showed me a mountain range of 2 fire

�� which burnt day and night. And I went beyond it and saw

seven magnificent mountains all differing

�� each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were

magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole,

�� of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the

east, one founded on the other, and three

�� towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough

ravines, no one of which 3 joined with any

�� other. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these,

and it excelled them 4 in height, resembling

�� the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne.

And amongst them was a tree such as I

�� had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were

others like it: it had a fragrance beyond

�� all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not

for ever: 5 and its fruit is beautiful, and

�� its fruit n resembles the dates of a palm. Then I said: 'How

beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its

�� leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.'

6 Then answered Michael, one of the

�� holy and honoured angels who was with me, and was their

leader.

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�� 1 And he said unto me: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask me

regarding the fragrance of the tree, 2 and why

�� dost thou wish to learn the truth?' Then I answered him

saying: 'I wish to 3 know about everything, but

�� especially about this tree.' And he answered saying: 'This

high mountain which thou hast seen, whose

�� summit is like the throne of God, is His throne, where the

Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the

�� Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit 4 the

earth with goodness. And as for this

�� fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great

judgement, when He shall take vengeance

�� on all and bring (everything) to its consummation 5 for ever. It

shall then be given to the righteous and

�� holy. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be

transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of

�� the Lord, the Eternal King.

�� 6 Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad,

�� And into the holy place shall they enter;

�� And its fragrance shall be in their bones,

�� And they shall live a long life on earth,

�� Such as thy fathers lived:

�� And in their days shall no sorrow or plague

�� Or torment or calamity touch them.'

�� 7 Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath

prepared such things for the righteous,

�� and hath created them and promised to give to them.

�� XXVI. Jerusalem and the Mountains, Ravines, and

Streams.

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�� 1 And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw

a blessed place in which there were 2

�� trees with branches abiding and blooming [of a dismembered

tree]. And there I saw a holy mountain,

�� 3 and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream

and it flowed towards the south. And I

�� saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and

between them a deep and narrow 4

�� ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath the mountain. And

to the west thereof there was another

�� mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a

ravine deep and dry between 5 them:

�� and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the

three mountains. And all the ravines

�� were deep rand narrow, (being formed) of hard rock, and

trees were not planted upon 6 them. And I

�� marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine, yea, I

marveled very much.

�� XXVII. The Purpose of the Accursed Valley.

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�� 1 Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is

entirely filled with trees, and this 2

�� accursed valley between?' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels

who was with me, answered and said:

�� 'This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever:

Here shall all the accursed be gathered

�� together who utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly

words and of His glory speak hard things.

�� Here shall they be gathered together, and here 3 shall be their

place of judgement. In the last days

�� there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous

judgement in the presence of the righteous for

�� ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the

Eternal King. 4 In the days of judgement over

�� the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance

with 5 which He has assigned them (their

�� lot).' Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory

and lauded Him gloriously.

�� XXVIII‑XXXIII. Further Journey to the East.

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�� 1 And thence I went towards the east, into the midst of the

mountain range of the desert, and 2 I saw a

�� wilderness and it was solitary, full of trees and plants. And

water gushed forth from 3 above. Rushing

�� like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the

north‑west it caused clouds and dew to

�� ascend on every side.

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�� 1 And thence I went to another place in the desert, and

approached to the east of this mountain 2

�� range. And there I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance

of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees

�� also were similar to the almond tree.

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�� 1,2 And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw

another place, a valley (full) of water. And 3

�� therein there was a tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such

as the mastic. And on the sides of those

�� valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I

proceeded to the east.

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�� 1 And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves

of trees, and there flowed forth from 2

�� them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum. And

beyond these mountains I saw another

�� mountain to the east of the ends of the earth, whereon were

aloe‑trees, and all the trees were full 3 of

�� stacte, being like almond‑trees. And when one burnt it, it

smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.

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�� 1 And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the

north over the mountains I saw seven

�� mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cinnamon

and pepper. 2 And thence I went over

�� the summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of

the earth, and passed above the Erythraean

�� sea and went far from it, and passed over the angel Zotiel.

And I came to the Garden of

�� Righteousness, 3 I and from afar off trees more numerous

than I these trees and great‑two trees there,

�� very great, beautiful, and glorious, and magnificent, and the

tree of knowledge, whose holy fruit they

�� eat and know great wisdom. 4 That tree is in height like the fir,

and its leaves are like (those of) the

�� Carob tree: and its fruit 5 is like the clusters of the vine, very

beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree

�� penetrates afar. Then 6 I said: 'How beautiful is the tree, and

how attractive is its look!' Then Raphael

�� the holy angel, who was with me, answered me and said:

'This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy

�� father old (in years) and thy aged mother, who were before

thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom

�� and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were

naked and they were driven out of the

�� garden.'

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�� 1 And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw

there great beasts, and each differed from

�� the other; and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and

beauty and voice, the one differing from

�� the other. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of

the earth whereon the heaven 2 rests, and

�� the portals of the heaven open. And I saw how the stars of

heaven come forth, and 3 I counted the

�� portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their

outlets, of each individual star by itself,

�� according to their number and their names, their courses and

their positions, and their 4 times and their

�� months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me.

He showed all things to me and wrote

�� them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and

their laws and their companies.

� ��XXXIV‑XXXV. Enoch's Journey to the North.

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�� 1 And from thence I went towards the north to the ends of the

earth, and there I saw a great and 2

�� glorious device at the ends of the whole earth. And here I saw

three portals of heaven open in the

�� heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when

they blow there is cold, hail, frost, 3 snow,

�� dew, and rain. And out of one portal they blow for good: but

when they blow through the other two

�� portals, it is with violence and affliction on the earth, and they

blow with violence.

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�� 1 And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the

earth, and saw there three portals of the

�� heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number

of portals, and the same number of

�� outlets.

�� XXXVI. The Journey to the South.

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�� 1 And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth,

and saw there three open portals 2 of

�� the heaven: and thence there come dew, rain, and wind. And

from thence I went to the east to the

�� ends of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of

heaven open and small portals 3 above

�� them. Through each of these small portals pass the stars of

heaven and run their course to the west on

�� the path which is shown to them. And as often as I saw I

blessed always the Lord of Glory, and I

�� continued to bless the Lord of Glory who has wrought great

and glorious wonders, to show the

�� greatness of His work to the angels and to spirits and to men,

that they might praise His work and all

�� His creation: that they might see the work of His might and

praise the great work of His hands and

�� bless Him for ever.

�� Section II. Chapters XXXVII‑LXXI

�� The Parables

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�� 1 The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom

‑which Enoch the son of Jared, the son 2 of

�� Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth,

the son of Adam, saw. And this is the

�� beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice

to speak and say to those which dwell

�� on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come

after, the words of the Holy 3 One which I

�� will speak before the Lord of Spirits. It were better to declare

(them only) to the men of old time, but

�� even from those that come after we will not withhold the

beginning of wisdom. 4 Till the present day

�� such wisdom has never been given by the Lord of Spirits as I

have received according to my insight,

�� according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom

the lot of 5 eternal life has been given

�� to me. Now three Parables were imparted to me, and I lifted

up my voice and recounted them to

�� those that dwell on the earth.

�� XXXVIII‑XLIV. The First Parable.

�� XXXVIII. The Coming Judgement of the Wicked.

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�� 1 The first Parable.

�� When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,

�� And sinners shall be judged for their sins,

��And shall be driven from the face of the earth:

�� 2 And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes

of the righteous,

�� Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,

�� And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who

dwell on the earth,

�� Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,

�� And where the resting‑place of those who have denied the

Lord of Spirits?

�� It had been good for them if they had not been born.

�� 3 When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the

sinners judged,

�� And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous

and elect,

�� 4 From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer

be powerful and exalted:

��And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,

�� For the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear

�� On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.

�� 5 Then shall the kings and the mighty perish

�� And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.

�� 6 And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy

from the Lord of Spirits

�� For their life is at an end.

�� XXXIX. The Abode of the Righteous and the Elect One: the

Praises of the Blessed.

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�� 1 [And it shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy

children will descend from the 2 high

�� heaven, and their seed will become one with the children of

men. And in those days Enoch received

�� books of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and

expulsion.]

�� And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of

Spirits.

�� 3 And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,

�� And set me down at the end of the heavens.

�� 4 And there I saw another vision, the dwelling‑places of the

holy,

�� And the resting‑places of the righteous.

�� 5 Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous

angels,

�� And their resting‑places with the holy.

�� And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the

children of men,

�� And righteousness flowed before them as water,

�� And mercy like dew upon the earth:

�� Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.

�� 6a And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of

righteousness and of faith,

�� 7a And I saw his dwelling‑place under the wings of the Lord of

Spirits.

�� 6b And righteousness shall prevail in his days,

�� And the righteous and elect shall be without number before

Him for ever and ever.

�� 7b And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong

as fiery lights,

�� And their mouth shall be full of blessing,

�� And their lips extolthe name of the Lord of Spirits,

�� And righteousness before Him shall never fail,

�� [And uprightness shall never fail before Him.]

�� 8 There I wished to dwell,

�� And my spirit longed for that dwelling‑place:

�� And there heretofore hath been my portion,

�� For so has it been established concerning me before the Lord

of Spirits.

�� 9 In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of

Spirits with blessings and praises,

�� because He hath destined me for blessing and glory

according to the good pleasure of the Lord of 10

�� Spirits. For a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I

blessed Him and praised Him, saying:

�� 'Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning

and for evermore. And before Him there is

�� no ceasing. He knows before the world was created what is

for ever and what will be from 12

�� generation unto generation. Those who sleep not bless Thee:

they stand before Thy glory and bless,

��praise, and extol, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of

Spirits: He filleth the earth with 13 spirits."'

�� And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand

before Him and bless and say: 14 'Blessed

�� be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and

ever.' And my face was changed; for I

�� could no longer behold.

�� XL‑XLI. 2. The Four Archangels.

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�� 1 And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten

thousand times ten thousand, I saw a multitude

�� 2 beyond number and reckoning, who stood before the Lord

of Spirits. And on the four sides of the

�� Lord of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that

sleep not, and I learnt their names: for

�� the angel that went with me made known to me their names,

and showed me all the hidden things. 3

�� And I heard the voices of those four presences as they

uttered praises before the Lord of glory. 4,5

�� The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.

And the second voice I heard blessing 6

�� the Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of

Spirits. And the third voice I heard pray

�� and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate

in the name of the Lord of Spirits. 7

�� And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and

forbidding them to come before the Lord 8 of

�� Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth. After that I

asked the angel of peace who went with

�� me, who showed me everything that is hidden: 'Who are

these four presences which I have 9 seen and

�� whose words I have heard and written down?' And he said to

me: 'This first is Michael, the merciful

�� and long‑suffering: and the second, who is set over all the

diseases and all the wounds of the children

�� of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the

powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set

�� over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal

life, is named Phanuel.' 10 And these are

�� the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I

heard in those days.

�� XLI. 3‑9. Astronomical Secrets.

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�� 1 And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how

the kingdom is divided, and how the 2

�� actions of men are weighed in the balance. And there I saw

the mansions of the elect and the

�� mansions of the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners

being driven from thence which deny the

�� name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they

could not abide because of the

�� punishment which proceeds from the Lord of Spirits. 3 And

there mine eyes saw the secrets of the

�� lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds,

how they are divided to blow over the

�� earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there 4 I

saw from whence they proceed in that

�� place and from whence they saturate the dusty earth. And

there I saw closed chambers out of which

�� the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the

chamber of the mist, and of the clouds,

�� and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the 5

beginning of the world. And I saw the

�� chambers of the sun and moon, whence they proceed and

whither they come again, and their glorious

�� return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately

orbit, and how they do not leave their

�� orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing

from it, and they keep faith with each

�� other, in accordance with the oath by which they 6 are bound

together. And first the sun goes forth

�� and traverses his path according to the commandment 7 of

the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is His name

�� for ever and ever. And after that I saw the hidden and the

visible path of the moon, and she

�� accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and

by night‑the one holding a position

�� opposite to the other before the Lord of Spirits.

�� And they give thanks and praise and rest not;

�� For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.

�� 8 For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,

�� And the course of the path of the moon is light to the

righteous

�� And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,

�� Who made a separation between the light and the darkness,

�� And divided the spirits of men,

�� And strengthened the spirits of the righteous,

�� In the name of His righteousness.

�� 9 For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He

appoints a judge for them all and He

�� judges them all before Him.

�� XLII. The Dwelling‑places of Wisdom and of

Unrighteousness.

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�� 1 Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;

�� Then a dwelling‑place was assigned her in the heavens.

�� 2 Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the

children of men,

�� And found no dwelling‑place:

�� Wisdom returned to her place,

�� And took her seat among the angels.

�� 3 And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:

�� Whom she sought not she found,

�� And dwelt with them,

�� As rain in a desert

�� And dew on a thirsty land.

�� XLIII‑XLIV. Astronomical Secrets.

�� 43

�� 1 And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I

saw how He called them all by their 2

�� names and they hearkened unto Him. And I saw how they are

weighed in a righteous balance

�� according to their proportions of light: (I saw) the width of

their spaces and the day of their appearing,

�� and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their

revolution according to the 3 number of

�� the angels, and (how) they keep faith with each other. And I

asked the angel who went 4 with me who

�� showed me what was hidden: 'What are these?' And he said

to me: 'The Lord of Spirits hath showed

�� thee their parabolic meaning (lit. 'their parable'): these are the

names of the holy who dwell on the

�� earth and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever

and ever.'

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�� 1 Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings:

how some of the stars arise and become

�� lightnings and cannot part with their new form.

�� XLV‑LVII. The Second Parable.

�� XLV. The Lot of the Apostates: the New Heaven and the

New Earth.

�� 45

�� 1 And this is the second Parable concerning those who deny

the name of the dwelling of the holy ones

�� and the Lord of Spirits.

�� 2 And into the heaven they shall not ascend,

�� And on the earth they shall not come:

�� Such shall be the lot of the sinners

�� Who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,

�� Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and

tribulation.

�� 3 On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory

�� And shall try their works,

�� And their places of rest shall be innumerable.

�� And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see

Mine Elect Ones,

�� And those who have called upon My glorious name:

�� 4 Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.

�� And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal

blessing and light

�� 5 And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:

�� And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:

�� But the sinners and evil‑doers shall not set foot thereon.

�� 6 For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous

ones

�� And have caused them to dwell before Me:

�� But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,

�� So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.

�� XLVI. The Head of Days and the Son of Man.

�� 46

�� 1 And there I saw One who had a head of days,

�� And His head was white like wool,

�� And with Him was another being whose countenance had the

appearance of a man,

�� And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy

angels.

�� 2 And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all

the hidden things, concerning that 3

�� Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and) why he

went with the Head of Days? And he

�� answered and said unto me:

�� This is the son of Man who hath righteousness,

�� With whom dwelleth righteousness,

�� And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,

�� Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,

�� And whose lot hath the pre‑eminence before the Lord of

Spirits in uprightness for ever.

�� 4 And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen

�� Shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats,

�� [And the strong from their thrones]

�� And shall loosen the reins of the strong,

�� And break the teeth of the sinners.

�� 5 [And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and

kingdoms]

�� Because they do not extol and praise Him,

�� Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was

bestowed upon them.

�� 6 And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,

�� And shall fill them with shame.

�� And darkness shall be their dwelling,

�� And worms shall be their bed,

�� And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,

�� Because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.

�� 7 And these are they who judge the stars of heaven,

�� [And raise their hands against the Most High],

�� And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it.

�� And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,

�� And their power rests upon their riches,

�� And their faith is in the gods which they have made with their

hands,

�� And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,

�� 8 And they persecute the houses of His congregations,

�� And the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of

Spirits.

�� XLVII. The Prayer of the Righteous for Vengeance and their

Joy at its coming.

�� 47

�� 1 And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the

righteous,

�� And the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord

of Spirits.

�� 2 In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the

heavens

�� Shallunite with one voice

�� And supplicate and pray [and praise,

�� And give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits

�� On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,

�� And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before

the Lord of Spirits,

�� That judgement may be done unto them,

�� And that they may not have to suffer for ever.

�� 3 In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated

himself upon the throne of His glory,

�� And the books of the living were opened before Him:

�� And all His host which is in heaven above and His counselors

stood before Him,

�� 4 And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;

�� Because the number of the righteous had been offered,

�� And the prayer of the righteous had been heard,

�� And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord

of Spirits.

�� XLVIII. The Fount of Righteousness: the Son of Man ‑the Stay

of the Righteous: Judgement of

�� the Kings and the Mighty.

�� 48

�� 1 And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness

�� Which was inexhaustible:

�� And around it were many fountains of wisdom:

�� And all the thirsty drank of them,

�� And were filled with wisdom,

�� And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and

elect.

�� 2 And at that hour that Son of Man was named

�� In the presence of the Lord of Spirits,

�� And his name before the Head of Days.

�� 3 Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,

�� Before the stars of the heaven were made,

�� His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.

�� 4 He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay

themselves and not fall,

�� And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,

�� And the hope of those who are troubled of heart.

�� 5 All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before

him,

�� And will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of

Spirits.

�� 6 And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before

Him,

�� Before the creation of the world and for evermore.

�� 7 And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to

the holy and righteous;

�� For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous,

�� Because they have hated and despised this world of

unrighteousness,

�� And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the

Lord of Spirits:

�� For in his name they are saved,

�� And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to

their life.

�� 8 In these days downcast in countenance shall the kings of

the earth have become,

�� And the strong who possess the land because of the works of

their hands,

�� For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be

able to) save themselves.

�� 9 And I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:

�� As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the

holy:

�� As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the

righteous,

�� And no trace of them shall any more be found.

�� 10 And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the

earth,

�� And before them they shall fall and not rise again:

�� And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and

raise them:

�� For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.

�� The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.

�� XLIX. The Power and Wisdom of the Elect One.

�� 49

�� 1 For wisdom is poured out like water,

�� And glory faileth not before him for evermore.

�� 2 For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,

�� And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,

�� And have no continuance;

�� Because the Elect One standethbefore the Lord of Spirits,

�� And his glory is for ever and ever,

�� And his might unto all generations.

�� 3 And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,

�� And the spirit which gives insight,

�� And the spirit of understanding and of might,

�� And the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in

righteousness.

�� 4 And he shall judge the secret things,

�� And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;

�� For he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to

His good pleasure.

�� L. The Glorification and Victory of the Righteous: the

Repentance of the Gentiles.

�� 50

�� 1 And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and

elect,

�� And the light of days shall abide upon them,

�� And glory and honour shall turn to the holy,

�� 2 On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been

treasured up against the sinners.

�� And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord

of Spirits:

�� And He will cause the others to witness (this)

�� That they may repent

�� And forgo the works of their hands.

�� 3 They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of

Spirits,

�� Yet through His name shall they be saved,

�� And the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,

�� For His compassion is great.

�� 4 And He is righteous also in His judgement,

�� And in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall

not maintain itself:

�� At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.

�� 5 And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith the

Lord of Spirits.

�� LI. The Resurrection of the Dead, and the Separation by the

Judge of the Righteous and the

�� Wicked.

�� 51

�� 1 And in those days shall the earth also give back that which

has been entrusted to it,

�� And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,

�� And hell shall give back that which it owes.

�� 5a For in those days the Elect One shall arise,

�� 2 And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among

them:

�� For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.

�� 3 And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,

�� And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and

counsel:

�� For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath

glorified him.

�� 4 And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,

�� And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,

�� And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up

with joy.

�� 5b And the earth shall rejoice,

�� c And the righteous shall dwell upon it,

�� d And the elect shall walk thereon.

�� LII. The Seven Metal Mountains and the Elect One.

�� 52

�� l And after those days in that place where I had seen all the

visions of that which is hidden ‑for 2 I had

�� been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me

towards the west ‑There mine eyes saw all the

�� secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and

a mountain of copper, and a mountain of

�� silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal,

and a mountain of lead. 3 And I asked

�� the angel who went with me, saying, 'What things are these

which I have seen in 4 secret?' And he

�� said unto me: 'All these things which thou hast seen shall

serve the dominion of His Anointed that he

�� may be potent and mighty on the earth.' 5 And that angel of

peace answered, saying unto me: 'Wait a

�� little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret

things which surround the Lord of Spirits.

�� 6 And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,

�� The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the

mountain of silver,

�� And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and

the mountain of lead,

�� All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One

�� As wax: before the fire,

�� And like the water which streams down from above [upon

those mountains],

�� And they shall become powerless before his feet.

�� 7 And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be

saved,

�� Either by gold or by silver,

�� And none be able to escape.

�� 8 And there shall be no iron for war,

�� Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.

�� Bronze shall be of no service,

�� And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,

�� And lead shall not be desired.

�� 9 And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from

the surface of the earth,

�� When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord

of Spirits.'

�� LIII‑LIV. The Valley of Judgement: the Angels of Punishment:

the Communities of the Elect One.

�� 53

�� 1 There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and

all who dwell on the earth and sea and

�� islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of

homage, but that deep valley shall not

�� become full.

�� 2 And their hands commit lawless deeds,

�� And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:

�� Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord

of Spirits,

�� And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,

�� And they shall perish for ever and ever.

�� 3 For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and

preparing all the instruments of Satan. 4

�� And I asked the angel of peace who went with me: 'For whom

are they preparing these Instruments?'

�� 5 And he said unto me: 'They prepare these for the kings and

the mighty of this earth, that they may

�� thereby be destroyed. 6 And after this the Righteous and

Elect One shall cause the house of his

�� congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more

hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits.

�� 7 And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his

righteousness,

�� But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,

�� And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of

sinners.'

�� 54

�� 1 And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and

saw there a deep valley with burning 2

�� fire. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to

cast them into this deep valley. 3 And

�� there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments,

iron chains of immeasurable weight. 4

�� And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying:

'For whom are these chains being

�� prepared?' And he said unto me: 'These are being prepared

for the hosts of Az�z�l, so that they may

�� take them and cast them into the abyss of complete

condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws

�� with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded.

�� 6 And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall

take hold of them on that great day, and

�� cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord

of Spirits may take vengeance on them

�� for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and

leading astray those who dwell on the

�� earth.'

�� LIV.7.‑LV.2. Noachic Fragment on the first World

Judgement.

�� 7 And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of

Spirits, and he will open all the chambers

�� of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains

which are beneath the earth. 8 And all the

�� waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above

the heavens is the masculine, 9 and the

�� water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. And they

shall destroy all who dwell 10 on the earth

�� and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. And when

they have recognized their

�� unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then

by these shall they perish.

�� LV.3.‑LVI.4. Final Judgement of Azazel, the Watchers and

their children.

�� 55

�� 1 And after that the Head of Days repented and said: 'In vain

have I destroyed all who dwell 2 on the

�� earth.' And He sware by His great name: 'Henceforth I will not

do so to all who dwell on the earth,

�� and I will set a sign in the heaven: and this shall be a pledge

of good faith between Me and them for

�� ever, so long as heaven is above the earth. And this is in

accordance with My command. 3 When I

�� have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels

on the day of tribulation and pain because

�� of this, I will cause My chastisement and My wrath to abide

upon them, saith 4 God, the Lord of

�� Spirits. Ye mighty kings who dwell on the earth, ye shall have

to behold Mine Elect One, how he sits

�� on the throne of glory and judges Az�z�l, and all his

associates, and all his hosts in the name of the

�� Lord of Spirits.'

�� 56

�� 1 And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment

going, and they held scourges and chains 2 of

�� iron and bronze. And I asked the angel of peace who went

with me, saying: 'To whom are 3 these

�� who hold the scourges going?' And he said unto me: 'To their

elect and beloved ones, that they may

�� be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.

�� 4 And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and

beloved,

�� And the days of their lives shall be at an end,

�� And the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward

be reckoned.

�� LVI.5‑8. Last Struggle of the Heathen Powers against

Israel.

�� 5 And in those days the angels shall return

�� And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and

Medes:

�� They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall

come upon them,

�� And they shall rouse them from their thrones,

�� That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,

�� And as hungry wolves among their flocks.

�� 6 And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His

elect ones

�� [And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a

threshing‑floor and a highway :]

�� 7 But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their

horses.

�� And they shall begin to fight among themselves,

�� And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,

�� And a man shall not know his brother,

�� Nor a son his father or his mother,

�� Till there be no number of the corpses through their

slaughter,

�� And their punishment be not in vain.

�� 8 In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,

�� And they shall be swallowed up therein

�� And their destruction shall be at an end;

�� Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.'

�� LVII. The Return from the Dispersion.

�� 57

�� 1 And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of

wagons, and men riding thereon, and 2

�� coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the

south. And the noise of their wagons was

�� heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from

heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the

�� earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof

was heard from the one end of heaven 3 to

�� the other, in one day. And they shall all fall down and worship

the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end

�� of the second Parable.

�� LVIII‑LXXI. The Third Parable.

�� LVIII. The Blessedness of the Saints.

�� 58

�� 1 And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the

righteous and elect.

�� 2 Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,

�� For glorious shall be your lot.

�� 3 And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun.

�� And the elect in the light of eternal life:

�� The days of their life shall be unending,

�� And the days of the holy without number.

�� 4 And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with

the Lord of Spirits:

�� There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the

Eternal Lord.

�� 5 And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven

�� That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the

heritage of faith:

�� For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,

�� And the darkness is past.

�� 6 And there shall be a light that never endeth,

�� And to a limit (lit. 'number') of days they shall not come,

�� For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,

�� [And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]

�� And the light of uprightness established for ever before the

Lord of Spirits.

�� LIX. The Lights and the Thunder.

�� 59

�� 1 [In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings,

and of the lights, and the judgements they

�� execute (lit. 'their judgement'): and they lighten for a blessing

or a curse as the Lord of 2 Spirits willeth.

�� And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it

resounds above in the heaven, the sound

��thereof is heard, and he caused me to see the judgements

executed on the earth, whether they be for

�� well‑being and blessing, or for a curse according to the word

of the Lord of Spirits. 3 And after that

�� all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me,

and they lighten for blessing and for

�� satisfying.]

�� Book of Noah ‑a Fragment

�� LX. Quaking of the Heaven: Behemoth and Leviathan:

the Elements.

�� 60

�� 1 In the year 500, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day

of the month in the life of Enoch. In that

�� Parable I saw how a mighty quaking made the heaven of

heavens to quake, and the host of the Most

�� High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand

times ten thousand, were 2 disquieted

�� with a great disquiet. And the Head of Days sat on the throne

of His glory, and the angels and the

�� righteous stood around Him.

�� 3 And a great trembling seized me,

�� And fear took hold of me,

�� And my loins gave way,

�� And dissolved were my reins,

�� And I fell upon my face.

�� 4 And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones

and he raised me up, and when he had

�� raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to

endure the look of this host, and the 5

�� commotion and the quaking of the heaven. And Michael said

unto me: 'Why art thou disquieted with

�� such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy; and

He hath been merciful and 6

�� long‑suffering towards those who dwell on the earth. And

when the day, and the power, and the

�� punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of

Spirits hath prepared for those who worship

�� not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous

judgement, and for those who take His

�� name in vain‑that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant,

but for sinners an inquisition. 25 When the

�� punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall

rest in order that the punishment of the

�� Lord of Spirits may not come, in vain, and it shall slay the

children with their mothers and the children

�� with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place

according to His mercy and His

�� patience.' 7 And on that day were two monsters parted, a

female monster named Leviathan, to dwell

�� in the 8 abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the

waters. But the male is named Behemoth, who

�� occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain,

on the east of the garden where the elect

�� and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the

seventh from Adam, the first 9 man

�� whom the Lord of Spirits created. And I besought the other

angel that he should show me the might

�� of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and

cast, the one into the abysses 10 of the sea,

�� and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. And he said

to me: 'Thou son of man, herein thou

�� dost seek to know what is hidden.' 11 And the other angel

who went with me and showed me what

�� was hidden told me what is first and last in the heaven in the

height, and beneath the earth in the

�� depth, and at the ends of the 12 heaven, and on the

foundation of the heaven. And the chambers of the

�� winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are

weighed, and (how) the portals of the winds

� ��are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and

the power of the lights of the moon, and

�� according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the

stars according to their names, and how

�� all the divisions 13 are divided. And the thunders according to

the places where they fall, and all the

�� divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may

lighten, and their host that they may at once

�� obey. 14 For the thunder has places of rest (which) are

assigned (to it) while it is waiting for its peal;

�� and the thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although

not one and undivided, they both go

�� together 15 through the spirit and separate not. For when the

lightning lightens, the thunder utters its

�� voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and

divides equally between them; for the

�� treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of them

as it peals is held in with a bridle, and

�� turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward

according to the many quarters of the

�� earth. 16 And the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong,

and according to the might of his strength he

�� draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven

forward and disperses amid all the mountains

�� 17 of the earth. And the spirit of the hoar‑frost is his own

angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good 18

�� angel. And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers

on account of his strength ‑There is a 19

�� special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like

smoke, and its name is frost. And the spirit

�� of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it

has a special chamber; for its course is

�� glorious both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in

summer, and in its chamber is an angel. 20

�� And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the

heaven, and is connected with the

�� chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer:

and its clouds and the clouds of the 21

�� mist are connected, and the one gives to the other. And when

the spirit of the rain goes forth from its

�� chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it

out, and when it is diffused over the

�� whole earth it unites with the water on the earth. And

whensoever it unites with the water on 22 the

�� earth... For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth;

for they are nourishment for the earth

�� from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a

measure for the rain, 23 and the angels take

�� it in charge. And these things I saw towards the Garden of the

Righteous. 24 And the angel of peace

�� who was with me said to me: 'These two monsters, prepared

conformably to the greatness of God,

�� shall feed...

�� LXI. Angels go off to measure Paradise: the Judgement of the

Righteous by the Elect One: the

�� Praise of the Elect One and of God.

�� 61

�� 1 And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those

angels, and they took to themselves

�� wings and flew, and they went towards the north.

�� 2 And I asked the angel, saying unto him: 'Why have those

(angels) taken these cords and gone off?'

�� And he said unto me: 'They have gone to measure.'

�� 3 And the angel who went with me said unto me:

�� 'These shall bring the measures of the righteous,

�� And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,

�� That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of

Spirits for ever and ever.

�� 4 The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,

�� And those are the measures which shall be given to faith

�� And which shall strengthen righteousness.

�� 5 And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the

depths of the earth,

�� And those who have been destroyed by the desert,

�� And those who have been devoured by the beasts,

�� And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,

�� That they may return and stay themselves

�� On the day of the Elect One;

�� For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,

�� And none can be destroyed.

�� 6 And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command

and power and one voice and one light

�� like unto fire.

�� 7 And that One (with) their first words they blessed,

�� And extolled and lauded with wisdom,

�� And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.

�� 8 And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect one on the throne of

glory.

�� And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the

heaven,

�� And in the balance shall their deeds be weighed

�� 9 And when he shall lift up his countenance

�� To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name

of the Lord of Spirits,

�� And their path according to the way of the righteous

judgement of the Lord of Spirits,

�� Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,

�� And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of

Spirits.

�� 10 And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all

the holy ones above, and the host of God,

�� the Cherubic, Seraphin and Ophannin, and all the angels of

power, and all the angels of principalities,

�� 11 and the Elect One, and the other powers on the earth (and)

over the water. On that day shall raise

�� one voice, and bless and glorify and exalt in the spirit of faith,

and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the

�� spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of

judgement and of peace, and in the

�� spirit of goodness, and shall all say with one voice: "Blessed

is He, and may the name of the Lord of

�� Spirits be blessed for ever and ever."

�� 12 All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:

�� All the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless Him,

�� And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:

�� And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and

extol, and hallow Thy blessed name,

�� And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy

name for ever and ever.

�� 13 For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is

long‑suffering,

�� And all His works and all that He has created He has revealed

to the righteous and elect

�� In the name of the Lord of Spirits.'

�� LXII. Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty: Blessedness

of the Righteous.

�� 62

�� 1 And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty

and the exalted, and those who dwell on

�� the earth, and said:

�� 'Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to

recognize the Elect One.'

�� 2 And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His

glory,

�� And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,

�� And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,

�� And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.

�� 3 And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the

mighty,

�� And the exalted and those who hold the earth,

�� And they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of

his glory,

�� And righteousness is judged before him,

�� And no lying word is spoken before him.

�� 4 Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,

�� [And she has pain in bringing forth]

�� When her child enters the mouth of the womb,

�� And she has pain in bringing forth.

�� 5 And one portion of them shall look on the other,

�� And they shall be terrified,

�� And they shall be downcast of countenance,

�� And pain shall seize them,

�� When they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his

glory.

�� 6 And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth

shall bless and glorify and extol him who

�� rules over all, who was hidden.

�� 7 For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,

�� And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His

might,

�� And revealed him to the elect.

�� 8 And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,

�� And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.

�� 9 And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those

who rule the earth

�� Shall fall down before him on their faces,

�� And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,

�� And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.

�� 10 Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them

�� That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,

�� And their faces shall be filled with shame,

�� And the darkness grow deeper on their faces.

�� 11 And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment,

�� To execute vengeance on them because they have

oppressed His children and His elect

�� 12 And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His

elect:

�� They shall rejoice over them,

�� Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,

�� And His sword is drunk with their blood.

�� 13 And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,

�� And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the

sinners and unrighteous.

�� 14 And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,

�� And with that Son of Man shall they eat

�� And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.

�� 15 And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the

earth,

�� And ceased to be of downcast countenance.

�� And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,

�� 16 And these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of

Spirits:

�� And your garments shall not grow old,

�� Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.

�� LXIII. The unavailing Repentance of the Kingsand the

Mighty.

�� 63

�� 1 In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess

the earth implore (Him) to grant them a

�� little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they

were delivered, that they might fall 2 down

�� and worship before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins

before Him. And they shall bless and

�� glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:

�� ' Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,

�� And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,

�� And the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom,

�� 3 And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from

generation to generation,

�� And Thy glory for ever and ever:

�� Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,

�� And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.

�� 4 We have now learnt that we should glorify

�� And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is king over all

kings.'

�� 5 And they shall say:

�� 'Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks

�� And confess our faith before His glory!

�� 6 And now we long for a little rest but find it not:

�� We follow hard upon and obtain (it) not:

�� And light has vanished from before us,

�� And darkness is our dwelling‑place for ever and ever:

�� 7 For we have not believed before Him

�� Nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our

Lord]

�� But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,

�� And in our glory.

�� 8 And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us

not,

�� And we find no respite for confession

�� That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements

and His justice,

�� And His judgements have no respect of persons.

�� 9 And we pass away from before His face on account of our

works,

�� And all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.'

�� 10 Now they shall say unto themselves: 'Our souls are full of

unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent

�� us from descending from the midst thereof into the burden of

Sheol.'

�� 11 And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness

�� And shame before that Son of Man,

�� And they shall be driven from his presence,

�� And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.

�� 12 Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: 'This is the ordinance and

judgement with respect to the mighty and

�� the kings and the exalted and those who possess the earth

before the Lord of Spirits.'

�� LXIV. Vision of the Fallen Angels in the Place of

Punishment.

�� 64

�� 1,2 And other forms I saw hidden in that place. I heard the

voice of the angel saying: 'These are the

�� angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what was

hidden to the children of men and

�� seduced the children of men into committing sin.'

�� LXV. Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own

Preservation.

�� 65

�� 1,2 And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk

down and its destruction was nigh. And he

�� arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and

cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: 3 and

�� Noah said three times with an embittered voice: 'Hear me,

hear me, hear me.' And I said unto him:

�� 'Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth

is in such evil plight 4 and shaken, lest

�� perchance I shall perish with it?' And thereupon there was a

great commotion , on the earth, and a

�� voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. And

Enoch my grandfather came and stood by

�� me, and said unto me: 'Why hast thou cried unto me with a

bitter cry and weeping 6 And a command

�� has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning

those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is

�� accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the

angels, and all the violence of the Satans,

�� and all their powers ‑the most secret ones‑ and all the power

of those who practice sorcery, and the

�� power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten

images 7 for the whole earth: And how

�� silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft

metal 8 originates in the earth. For lead and

�� tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a

fountain 9 that produces them, and an angel

�� stands therein, and that angel is pre‑eminent.' And after that

my grandfather Enoch took hold of me

�� by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: 'Go, for I

have 10 asked the Lord of Spirits as

�� touching this commotion on the earth. And He said unto me:

"Because of their unrighteousness their

�� judgement has been determined upon and shall not be

withheld by Me for ever. Because of the

�� sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth

and those 11 who dwell upon it shall be

�� destroyed." And these ‑they have no place of repentance for

ever, because they have shown them

�� what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee,

my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that

�� thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the

secrets.

�� 12 And He has destined thy name to be among the holy,

�� And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the

earth,

�� And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for

great honours,

�� And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous

and holy without number for ever.

�� LXVI. The Angels of the Waters bidden to hold them in

Check.

�� 66

�� 1 And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who

are prepared to come and let loose all

�� the powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth in

order to bring judgement and destruction 2

�� on all who [abide and] dwell on the earth. And the Lord of

Spirits gave commandment to the angels

�� who were going forth, that they should not cause the waters

to rise but should hold them 3 in check;

�� for those angels were over the powers of the waters. And I

went away from the presence of Enoch.

�� LXVII. God's Promise to Noah: Places of Punishment of the

Angels and of the Kings.

�� 67

�� 1 And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He

said unto me: 'Noah, thy lot has come 2

�� up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and

uprightness. And now the angels are making a

�� wooden (building), and when they have completed that task I

will place My hand upon it and

�� preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life,

and a change shall set in so that the 3

�� earth will not remain without inhabitant. And I will make fast

thy sed before me for ever and ever, and

�� I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be

unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it

�� shall be blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of the

Lord.' 4 And He will imprison those

�� angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in that burning

valley which my grandfather Enoch had

�� formerly shown to me in the west among the mountains of

gold 5 and silver and iron and soft metal

�� and tin. And I saw that valley in which there was a great 6

convulsion and a convulsion of the waters.

�� And when all this took place, from that fiery molten metal and

from the convulsion thereof in that

�� place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was

connected with those waters, and that valley

�� of the angels who had led astray (mankind) burned 7 beneath

that land. And through its valleys

�� proceed streams of fire, where these angels are punished

who had led astray those who dwell upon

�� the earth. 8 But those waters shall in those days serve for the

kings and the mighty and the exalted,

�� and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body,

but for the punishment of the spirit; now

�� their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their

body, for they have denied the Lord of

�� Spirits 9 and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not

in His name. And in proportion as the

�� burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding

change shall take place in their spirit for ever

�� and ever; 10 for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an

idle word. For the judgement shall come

�� upon them, 11 because they believe in the lust of their body

and deny the Spirit of the Lord. And those

�� same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when

those angels are punished in these waters,

�� these water‑springs shall change their temperature, and

when the angels ascend, this water of the 12

�� springs shall change and become cold. And I heard Michael

answering and saying: ' This judgement

�� wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings

and the mighty who possess the 13 earth.'

�� Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of

the body of the kings and the lust of their

�� body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that

those waters will change and become a fire

�� which burns for ever.

�� LXVIII. Michael and Raphael astonied at the Severity of

the Judgement.

�� 68

�� 1 And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching

of all the secrets in the book in the

�� Parables which had been given to him, and he put them

together for me in the words of the book 2 of

�� the Parables. And on that day Michael answered Raphael and

said: 'The power of the spirit

�� transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity

of the judgement of the secrets, the

�� judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe

judgement which has been executed, and before

�� 3 which they melt away?' And Michael answered again, and

said to Raphael: 'Who is he whose heart

�� is not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not

troubled by this word of judgement 4 (that) has

�� gone forth upon them because of those who have thus led

them out?' And it came to pass when he

�� stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to Raphael:

'I will not take their part under the eye

�� of the Lord; for the Lord of Spirits has been angry with them

because they do 5 as if they were the

�� Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for

ever and ever; for neither angel nor man

�� shall have his portion (in it), but alone they have received

their judgement for ever and ever.

�� LXIX. The Names and Functions of the (fallen Angels and)

Satans: the secret Oath.

�� 69

�� 1 And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to

tremble because they have shown this

�� to those who dwell on the earth. 2 And behold the names of

those angels [and these are their names:

�� the first of them is Samj�z�, the second Art�q�f�, and the third

Arm$ecirc;n, the fourth K�kab�l, the

�� fifth T�r��l, the sixth R�mj�l, the seventh D�nj�l, the eighth

N�q��l, the ninth Bar�q�l, the tenth

�� Az�z�l, the eleventh Arm�r�s, the twelfth Batarj�l, the

thirteenth Busas�jal, the fourteenth Han�n�l,

�� the fifteenth T�r�l, and the sixteenth S�m�p�s��l, the

seventeenth Jetr�l, the eighteenth T�m��l, the

�� nineteenth T�r�l, 3 the twentieth R�m��l, the twenty‑first

Az�z�l. And these are the chiefs of their

�� angels and their names, and their chief ones over hundreds

and over fifties and over tens].

�� 4 The name of the first Jeq�n: that is, the one who led astray

[all] the sons of God, and brought them 5

�� down to the earth, and led them astray through the daughters

of men. And the second was named

�� Asbe�l: he imparted to the holy sons of God evil counsel, and

led them astray so that they defiled 6

�� their bodies with the daughters of men. And the third was

named G�dre�l: he it is who showed the

�� children of men all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve,

and showed [the weapons of death to

�� the sons of men] the shield and the coat of mail, and the

sword for battle, and all the weapons 7 of

�� death to the children of men. And from his hand they have

proceeded against those who dwell 8 on

�� the earth from that day and for evermore. And the fourth was

named P�n�m�e: he taught the 9

�� children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them

all the secrets of their wisdom. And he

�� instructed mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby

many sinned from eternity to 10 eternity

�� and until this day. For men were not created for such a

purpose, to give confirmation 11 to their good

�� faith with pen and ink. For men were created exactly like the

angels, to the intent that they should

�� continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys

everything, could not have taken hold of

�� them, but through this their knowledge they are perishing,

and through this power 12 it is consuming

�� me. And the fifth was named K�sdej�: this is he who showed

the children of men all the wicked

�� smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the

embryo in the womb, that it may pass away,

�� and [the smitings of the soul] the bites of the serpent, and the

smitings 13 which befall through the

�� noontide heat, the son of the serpent named Tab�'et. And this

is the task of K�sbe�l, the chief of the

�� oath which he showed to the holy ones when he dwelt high

14 above in glory, and its name is B�q�.

�� This (angel) requested Michael to show him the hidden name,

that he might enunciate it in the oath, so

�� that those might quake before that name and oath who 15

revealed all that was in secret to the children

�� of men. And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful

and strong, and he placed this oath Ak�e

�� in the hand of Michael.

�� 16 And these are the secrets of this oath...

�� And they are strong through his oath:

�� And the heaven was suspended before the world was

created,

�� And for ever.

�� 17 And through it the earth was founded upon the water,

�� And from the secret recesses of the mountains come

beautiful waters,

�� From the creation of the world and unto eternity.

�� 18 And through that oath the sea was created,

�� And as its foundation He set for it the sand against the time of

(its) anger,

�� And it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world

unto eternity.

�� 19 And through that oath are the depths made fast,

�� And abide and stir not from their place from eternity to

eternity.

�� 20 And through that oath the sun and moon complete their

course,

�� And deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.

�� 21 And through that oath the stars complete their course,

�� And He calls them by their names,

�� And they answer Him from eternity to eternity.

�� 22 [And in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the

winds, and of all zephyrs, and (their) paths 23

�� from all the quarters of the winds. And there are preserved

the voices of the thunder and the light of

�� the lightnings: and there are preserved the chambers of the

hail and the chambers of the 24 hoarfrost,

�� and the chambers of the mist, and the chambers of the rain

and the dew. And all these believe and

�� give thanks before the Lord of Spirits, and glorify (Him) with

all their power, and their food is in every

�� act of thanksgiving: they thank and glorify and extol the name

of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.]

�� 25 And this oath is mighty over them

�� And through it [they are preserved and] their paths are

preserved,

�� And their course is not destroyed.

�� 26 And there was great joy amongst them,

�� And they blessed and glorified and extolled

�� Because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed unto

them.

�� 27 And he sat on the throne of his glory,

�� And the sum of judgement was given unto the Son of Man,

�� And he caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed

from off the face of the earth,

�� And those who have led the world astray.

�� 28 With chains shall they be bound,

�� And in their assemblage‑place of destruction shall they be

imprisoned,

�� And all their works vanish from the face of the earth.

�� 29 And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible;

�� For that Son of Man has appeared,

�� And has seated himself on the throne of his glory,

�� And all evil shall pass away before his face,

�� And the word of that Son of Man shall go forth

�� And be strong before the Lord of Spirits.

�� This is the third parable of Enoch.

�� LXX. The Final Translation of Enoch.

�� 70

�� 1 And it came to pass after this that his name during his

lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of 2 Man

�� and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on

the earth. And he was raised aloft 3 on

�� the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them.

And from that day I was no longer

�� numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two

winds, between the North and the 4 West,

�� where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place

for the elect and righteous. And there I

�� saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the

beginning dwell in that place.

�� LXXI. Two earlier Visions of Enoch.

�� 71

�� 1 And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated

�� And it ascended into the heavens:

�� And I saw the holy sons of God.

�� They were stepping on flames of fire:

�� Their garments were white [and their raiment],

�� And their faces shone like snow.

�� 2 And I saw two streams of fire,

�� And the light of that fire shone like hyacinth,

�� And I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.

�� 3 And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by

my right hand,

�� And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,

�� And he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.

�� 4 And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the

heaven,

�� And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,

�� Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.

�� 5 And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens,

�� And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals,

�� And between those crystals tongues of living fire.

�� 6 And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire,

�� And on its four sides were streams full of living fire,

�� And they girt that house.

�� 7 And round about were Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin:

�� And these are they who sleep not

�� And guard the throne of His glory.

�� 8 And I saw angels who could not be counted,

�� A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand,

�� Encircling that house.

�� And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,

�� And the holy angels who are above the heavens,

�� Go in and out of that house.

�� 9 And they came forth from that house,

�� And Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel,

�� And many holy angels without number.

�� 10 And with them the Head of Days,

�� His head white and pure as wool,

�� And His raiment indescribable.

�� 11 And I fell on my face,

�� And my whole body became relaxed,

�� And my spirit was transfigured;

�� And I cried with a loud voice,

�� . . . with the spirit of power,

�� And blessed and glorified and extolled.

�� 12 And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth

were well pleasing before that Head of 13

�� Days. And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel,

Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and

�� ten thousands of angels without number.

�� [Lost passage wherein the Son of Man was described as

accompanying the Head of Days, and

�� Enoch asked one of the angels (as in xlvi. 3) concerning the

Son of Man as to who he was.]

�� 14 And he (i.e. the angel) came to me and greeted me with

His voice, and said unto me:

�� 'This is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness,

�� And righteousness abides over him,

�� And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not.'

�� 15 And he said unto me:

�� 'He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to

come;

�� For from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of

the world,

�� And so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.

�� 16 And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness never

forsaketh him:

�� With him will be their dwelling‑places, and with him their

heritage,

�� And they shall not be separated from him for ever and ever

and ever.

�� And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man,

�� And the righteous shall have peace and an upright way

�� In the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.'

�� Section III.

�� Chapters LXXII‑LXXXII. The Book of the

�� Heavenly Luminaries.

�� LXXII. The Sun.

�� 72

�� 1 The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the

relations of each, according to their

�� classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their

names and places of origin, and

�� according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who

was with me, who is their guide, showed

�� me; and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and

how it is with regard to all the years of

�� the world 2 and unto eternity, till the new creation is

accomplished which dureth till eternity. And this is

�� the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the Sun has its

rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, 3

�� and its setting in the western portals of the heaven. And I saw

six portals in which the sun rises, and

�� six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets

in these portals, and the leaders of the

�� stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the

west, and all following each other 4 in

�� accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the

right and left of these portals. And first

�� there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his

circumference is like the 5 circumference

�� of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and

heating fire. The chariot on which he ascends,

�� the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and

returns through the north in order to

�� reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to the

appropriate (lit. 'that') portal and 6 shines in the

�� face of the heaven. In this way he rises in the first month in

the great portal, which 7 is the fourth [those

�� six portals in the cast]. And in that fourth portal from which

the sun rises in the first month are twelve

�� window‑openings, from which proceed a flame when they are

opened in 8 their season. When the sun

�� rises in the heaven, he comes forth through that fourth portal

thirty, 9 mornings in succession, and sets

�� accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven. And

during this period the day becomes daily

�� longer and the night nightly shorter to the thirtieth 10

morning. On that day the day is longer than the

�� night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts

and the night to eight parts. And the sun

�� rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns

to the fifth portal of the east thirty

�� mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth 12 portal. And

then the day becomes longer by two

�� parts and amounts to eleven parts, and the night 13 becomes

shorter and amounts to seven parts. And

�� it returns to the east and enters into the sixth 14 portal, and

rises and sets in the sixth portal

�� one‑and‑thirty mornings on account of its sign. On that day

the day becomes longer than the night,

�� and the day becomes double the night, and the day 15

becomes twelve parts, and the night is

�� shortened and becomes six parts. And the sun mounts up to

make the day shorter and the night

�� longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the 16

sixth portal, and rises from it and sets

�� thirty mornings. And when thirty mornings are accomplished,

17 the day decreases by exactly one

�� part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. And the

sun goes forth from that sixth portal in

�� the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth portal for

18 thirty mornings, and sets in the west

�� again in the fifth western portal. On that day the day

decreases by two parts, and amounts to ten parts

�� and the night to eight parts. And the sun goes forth from that

fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of

�� the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one‑ 20 and‑thirty

mornings on account of its sign, and sets

�� in the west. On that day the day is equalized with the night,

[and becomes of equal length], and the

�� night amounts to nine parts and the day to 21 nine parts. And

the sun rises from that portal and sets in

�� the west, and returns to the east and rises 22 thirty mornings

in the third portal and sets in the west in

�� the third portal. And on that day the night becomes longer

than the day, and night becomes longer

�� than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning,

and the night amounts exactly to ten parts

�� and the day to eight 23 parts. And the sun rises from that third

portal and sets in the third portal in the

�� west and returns to the east, and for thirty mornings rises 24

in the second portal in the east, and in like

�� manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven.

And on that day the night amounts to

�� eleven 25 parts and the day to seven parts. And the sun rises

on that day from that second portal and

�� sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east

into the first portal for one‑and‑thirty 26

�� mornings, and sets in the first portal in the west of the

heaven. And on that day the night becomes

�� longer and amounts to the double of the day: and the night

amounts exactly to twelve parts and 27 the

�� day to six. And the sun has (therewith) traversed the

divisions of his orbit and turns again on those

�� divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings

and sets also in the west 28 opposite to it.

�� And on that night has the night decreased in length by a ninth

part, and the night 29 has become eleven

�� parts and the day seven parts. And the sun has returned and

entered into the second portal in the

�� east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty

mornings, rising 30 and setting. And on that

�� day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to

ten parts 31 and the day to eight. And on

�� that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west,

and returns to the east, and rises in the

�� third portal for one‑and‑thirty mornings, and sets in the west

of the heaven. 32 On that day the night

�� decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine

parts, and the night 33 is equal to the day

�� and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and

sixty‑four. And the length of the day and of

�� the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night

arise‑through the course 34 of the sun these

�� distinctions are made (lit. 'they are separated'). So it comes

that its course becomes 35 daily longer,

�� and its course nightly shorter. And this is the law and the

course of the sun, and his return as often as

�� he returns sixty times and rises, i.e. the great luminary which

is named the sun, 36 for ever and ever.

�� And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so

named according to 37 its appearance,

�� according as the Lord commanded. As he rises, so he sets

and decreases not, and rests not, but runs

�� day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of

the moon; but as regards size they are

�� both equal.

�� LXXIII. The Moon and its Phases.

�� 73

�� 1 And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller

luminary, which is named the Moon. 2

�� And her circumference is like the circumference of the

heaven, and her chariot in which she rides 3 is

�� driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite)

measure. And her rising and setting change

�� every month: and her days are like the days of the sun, and

when her light is uniform 4 (i.e. full) it

�� amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun. And thus

she rises. And her first phase in the east

�� comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that day she

becomes visible, and constitutes for you the

�� first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the

sun in the 5 portal where the sun rises.

�� And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her

whole circumference is empty, without

�� light, with the exception of one‑seventh part of it, (and) the 6

fourteenth part of her light. And when

�� she receives one‑seventh part of the half of her light, her light

7 amounts to one‑seventh part and the

�� half thereof. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun

rises the moon rises with him and receives

�� the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning

of her morning [in the commencement of

�� the lunar day] the moon sets with the sun, and 8 is invisible

that night with the fourteen parts and the

�� half of one of them. And she rises on that day with exactly a

seventh part, and comes forth and

�� recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days

she becomes bright in the (remaining)

�� thirteen parts.

�� LXXIV. The Lunar Year.

�� 74

�� 1 And I saw another course, a law for her, (and) how

according to that law she performs her monthly

�� 2 revolution. And all these Uriel, the holy angel who is the

leader of them all, showed to me, and their

�� positions, and I wrote down their positions as he showed

them to me, and I wrote down their months

�� 3 as they were, and the appearance of their lights till fifteen

days were accomplished. In single seventh

�� parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single

seventh parts accomplishes all her 4

�� darkness in the west. And in certain months she alters her

settings, and in certain months she pursues 5

�� her own peculiar course. In two months the moon sets with

the sun: in those two middle portals the 6

�� third and the fourth. She goes forth for seven days, and turns

about and returns again through the

�� portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light:

and she recedes from the sun, and in eight 7

�� days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth.

And when the sun goes forth from the

�� fourth portal she goes forth seven days, until she goes forth

from the fifth and turns back again in

�� seven days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her

light: and she recedes and enters into the 8

�� first portal in eight days. And she returns again in seven days

into the fourth portal from which the 9,10

�� sun goes forth. Thus I saw their position ‑how the moons rose

and the sun set in those days. And if

�� five years are added together the sun has an overplus of

thirty days, and all the days which accrue 11

�� to it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to

364 days. And the overplus of the sun

�� and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6 days every

year come to 30 days: and the 12 moon

�� falls behind the sun and stars to the number of 30 days. And

the sun and the stars bring in all the years

�� exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by

a single day unto eternity; but complete

�� the years with perfect justice in 364 days. In 3 years there are

1,092 days, and in 5 years 1,820 days,

�� so that in 8 years there are 2,912 days. For the moon alone

the days amount in 3 years to 1,062

�� days, and in 5 years she falls 50 days behind: [i.e. to the sum

(of 1,770) there is 15 to be added

�� (1,000 and) 62 days.] And in 5 years there are 1,770 days, so

that for the moon the days 16 in 8

�� years amount to 2,832 days. [For in 8 years she falls behind to

the amount of 80 days], all the 17 days

�� she falls behind in 8 years are 80. And the year is accurately

completed in conformity with their

�� world‑stations and the stations of the sun, which rise from the

portals through which it (the sun) rises

�� and sets 30 days.

�� 75

�� 1 And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are

placed over the whole creation and over all

�� the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days, being

inseparable from their office, according

�� to the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the

four days which are not 2 reckoned in

�� the reckoning of the year. And owing to them men go wrong

therein, for those luminaries truly render

�� service on the world‑stations, one in the first portal, one in

the third portal of the heaven, one in the

�� fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of

the year is 3 accomplished through its

�� separate three hundred and sixty‑four stations. For the signs

and the times and the years and the days

�� the angel Uriel showed to me, whom the Lord of glory hath

set for ever over all the luminaries of the

�� heaven, in the heaven and in the world, that they should rule

on the face of the heaven and be seen on

�� the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night, i.e. the

sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering

�� creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots 4 of

the heaven. In like manner twelve doors

�� Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun's

chariot in the heaven, through which the rays

�� of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth 5 diffused

over the earth, when they are opened at

�� their appointed seasons. [And for the winds and 6 the spirit of

the dew when they are opened,

�� standing open in the heavens at the ends.] As for the twelve

portals in the heaven, at the ends of the

�� earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, 7 and all

the works of heaven in the east and in

�� the west, There are many windows open to the left and right

of them, and one window at its

�� (appointed) season produces warmth, corresponding (as

these do) to those doors from which the

�� stars come forth according as He has commanded them, 8

and wherein they set corresponding to their

�� number. And I saw chariots in the heaven, running 9 in the

world, above those portals in which

�� revolve the stars that never set. And one is larger than all the

rest, and it is that that makes its course

�� through the entire world.

�� LXXVI. The Twelve Winds and their Portals.

�� 76

�� 1 And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all

the quarters (of the heaven), from 2

�� which the winds go forth and blow over the earth. Three of

them are open on the face (i.e. the east)

�� of the heavens, and three in the west, and three on the right

(i.e. the south) of the heaven, and 3 three

�� on the left (i.e. the north). And the three first are those of the

east, and three are of the 4 north, and

�� three [after those on the left] of the south, and three of the

west. Through four of these come winds of

�� blessing and prosperity, and from those eight come hurtful

winds: when they are sent, they bring

�� destruction on all the earth and on the water upon it, and on

all who dwell thereon, and on everything

�� which is in the water and on the land. 5 And the first wind

from those portals, called the east wind,

�� comes forth through the first portal which is in the east,

inclining towards the south: from it come forth

�� desolation, drought, heat, 6 and destruction. And through the

second portal in the middle comes what

�� is fitting, and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and

prosperity and dew; and through the third

�� portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought. 7

And after these come forth the south

�� winds through three portals: through the first portal of 8 them

inclining to the east comes forth a hot

�� wind. And through the middle portal next to it there 9 come

forth fragrant smells, and dew and rain,

�� and prosperity and health. And through the third portal lying

to the west come forth dew and rain,

�� locusts and desolation. 10 And after these the north winds:

from the seventh portal in the east come

�� dew and rain, locusts 11 and desolation. And from the middle

portal come in a direct direction health

�� and rain and dew and prosperity; and through the third portal

in the west come cloud and hoar‑frost,

�� and snow and rain, and dew and locusts. 12 And after these

[four] are the west winds: through the first

�� portal adjoining the north come forth 13 dew and hoar‑frost,

and cold and snow and frost. And from

�� the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and prosperity and

blessing; and through the last portal

�� which adjoins the south come forth 14 drought and

desolation, and burning and destruction. And the

�� twelve portals of the four quarters of the heaven are

therewith completed, and all their laws and all

�� their plagues and all their benefactions have I shown to thee,

my son Methuselah.

�� LXXVII. The Four Quarters of the World: the Seven

Mountains, the Seven Rivers, &c.

�� 77

�� 1 And the first quarter is called the east, because it is the first:

and the second, the south, because the

�� Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite a special

sense will He who is blessed for ever 2

�� descend. And the west quarter is named the diminished,

because there all the luminaries of the 3

�� heaven wane and go down. And the fourth quarter, named the

north, is divided into three parts: the

�� first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second

contains seas of water, and the abysses and

�� forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third

part contains the garden of righteousness. 4

�� I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains

which are on the earth: and thence 5 comes

�� forth hoar‑frost, and days, seasons, and years pass away. I

saw seven rivers on the earth larger than

�� all the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its

waters into the Great Sea. 6 And these two

�� come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the

Erythraean Sea in the 7 east. And the

�� remaining, four come forth on the side of the north to their

own sea, two of them to the Erythraean

�� Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves

there [and some say: 8 into the desert].

�� Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two

in the mainland and five in the Great Sea.

�� LXXVIII. The Sun and Moon: the Waxing and Waning of

the Moon.

�� 78

�� 1,2 And the names of the sun are the following: the first

Orj�r�s, and the second T�m�s. And the

�� moon has four names: the first name is As�nj�, the second

Ebl�, the third Ben�s�, and the fourth 3

�� Er�e. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference

is like the circumference of the 4 heaven,

�� and the size of the circumference of both is alike. In the

circumference of the sun there are seven

�� portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon,

and in definite measures it is 5

�� transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted.

And they set and enter the portals of the

�� west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth

through the eastern portals 6 on the face

�� of the heaven. And when the moon rises one‑fourteenth part

appears in the heaven: 7 [the light

�� becomes full in her]: on the fourteenth day she accomplishes

her light. And fifteen parts of light are

�� transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her light is

accomplished, according to the sign of the

�� year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by

(the addition of) fourteenth 8 parts. And

�� in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first day to

fourteen parts of her light, on the second to

�� thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to

eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to

�� nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the

ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the

�� eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to

two, on the fourteenth 9 to the half of a

�� seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the

fifteenth. And 10 in certain months the

�� month has twenty‑nine days and once twenty‑eight. And Uriel

showed me another law: when light is

�� transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to

her by 11 the sun. Duringall the period

�� during which the moon is growing in her light, she is

transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun

�� during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in the heaven,

12 and when she is illumined throughout,

�� her light is accomplished full in the heaven. And on the first

13 day she is called the new moon, for on

�� that day the light rises upon her. She becomes full moon

exactly on the day when the sun sets in the

�� west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon

shines the whole night through till the sun rises

�� over against her and the moon is seen over against 14 the

sun. On the side whence the light of the

�� moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light

vanishes and all the days of the month are at

�� an end, and her circumference is empty, void of 15 light. And

three months she makes of thirty days,

�� and at her time she makes three months of twenty‑nine days

each, in which she accomplishes her

��waning in the first period of time, and in the first 16 portal for

one hundred and seventy‑seven days.

�� And in the time of her going out she appears for three months

(of) thirty days each, and for three

�� months she appears (of) twenty‑nine each. At night she

appears like a man for twenty days each time,

�� and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is nothing

else in her save her light.

�� LXXIX‑LXXX.1. Recapitulation of several of the Laws.

�� 79

�� 1 And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the

law of all the stars of the heaven is 2

�� completed. And he showed me all the laws of these for every

day, and for every season of bearing

�� rule, and for every year, and for its going forth, and for the

order prescribed to it every month 3 and

�� every week: And the waning of the moon which takes place

in the sixth portal: for in this 4 sixth portal

�� her light is accomplished, and after that there is the beginning

of the waning: (And the waning) which

�� takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred

and seventy‑seven 5 days are

�� accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty‑five

(weeks) and two days. She falls behind the

�� sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the course

of one period, and when 6 this place

�� which thou seest has been traversed. Such is the picture and

sketch of every luminary which Uriel the

�� archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.

�� 80

�� 1 And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me:

'Behold, I have shown thee everything,

�� Enoch, and I have revealed everything to thee that thou

shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the

�� leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn

them, their tasks and times and departures.

�� LXXX.2‑8. Perversion of Nature and the heavenly Bodies

due to the Sin of Men.

�� 2 And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,

�� And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,

�� And all things on the earth shall alter,

�� And shall not appear in their time:

�� And the rain shall be kept back

�� And the heaven shall withhold (it).

�� 3 And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,

�� And shall not grow in their time,

�� And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.

�� 4 And the moon shall alter her order,

�� And not appear at her time.

�� 5 [And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall

journey in the evening on the extremity of the

�� great chariot in the west]

�� And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of

light.

�� 6 And many chiefs of thestars shall transgress the order

(prescribed).

�� And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,

�� And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.

�� 7 And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from

the sinners,

�� And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning

them,

�� [And they shall be altered from all their ways],

�� Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.

� ��8 And evil shall be multiplied upon them,

�� And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.'

�� LXXXI. The Heavenly Tablets and the Mission of

Enoch.

�� 81

�� 1 And he said unto me:

�� 'Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets,

�� And read what is written thereon,

�� And mark every individual fact.'

�� 2 And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything

which was written (thereon) and

�� understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of

mankind, and of all the children of flesh 3

�� that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations. And

forthwith I blessed the great Lord the

�� King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the works of the

world,

�� And I extolled the Lord because of His patience,

�� And blessed Him because of the children of men.

�� 4 And after that I said:

�� 'Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,

� ��Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness

written,

�� And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.'

�� 5 And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on

the earth before the door of my house,

�� and said to me: 'Declare everything to thy son Methuselah,

and show to all thy children that no 6 flesh

�� is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator.

One year we will leave thee with thy son,

�� till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou mayest teach

thy children and record (it) for them, and

�� testify to all thy children; and in the second year they shall

take thee from their midst.

�� 7 Let thy heart be strong,

�� For the good shall announce righteousness to the good;

�� The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,

�� And shall offer congratulation to one another.

�� 8 But the sinners shall die with the sinners,

�� And the apostate go down with the apostate.

�� 9 And those who practice righteousness shall die on account

of the deeds of men,

�� And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.'

�� 10 And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came

to my people, blessing the Lord of the

�� world.

�� LXXXII. Charge given to Enoch: the four Intercalary days: the

Stars which lead the Seasons and

�� the Months.

�� 82

�� 1 And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am

recounting to thee and writing down for thee!

�� and I have revealed to thee everything, and given thee books

concerning all these: so preserve, my

�� son Methuselah, the books from thy father's hand, and (see)

that thou deliver them to the generations

�� of the world.

�� 2 I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children,

�� [And thy children that shall be to thee],

�� That they may give it to their children for generations,

�� This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.

�� 3 And those who understand it shall not sleep,

�� But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,

�� And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good

food.

�� 4 Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who

walk in the way of righteousness and sin not

�� as the sinners, in the reckoning of all their days in which the

sun traverses t he heaven, entering into

�� and departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads

of thousands of the order of the stars,

�� together with the four which are intercalated which divide the

four portions of the year, which 5 lead

�� them and enter with them four days. Owing to them men shall

be at fault and not reckon them in the

�� whole reckoning of the year: yea, men shall be at fault, and

not recognize them accurately. 6 For they

�� belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly recorded

(thereon) for ever, one in the first portal

�� and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in the

sixth, and the year is completed in three

�� hundred and sixty‑four days. 7 And the account thereof is

accurate and the recorded reckoning

�� thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals,

and years and days, has Uriel shown and

�� revealed to me, to whom the 8 Lord of the whole creation of

the world hath subjected the host of

�� heaven. And he has power over night and day in the heaven

to cause the light to give light to men

�� ‑sun, moon, and stars, 9 and all the powers of the heaven

which revolve in their circular chariots. And

�� these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places,

and in their seasons and festivals and

�� months. 10 And these are the names of those who lead them,

who watch that they enter at their times,

�� in their orders, in their seasons, in their months, in their

periods of dominion, and in their positions. 11

�� Their four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter

first; and after them the twelve leaders of

�� the orders who divide the months; and for the three hundred

and sixty (days) there are heads over

�� thousands who divide the days; and for the four intercalary

days there are the leaders which sunder 12

�� the four parts of the year. And these heads over thousands

are intercalated between 13 leader and

�� leader, each behind a station, but their leaders make the

division. And these are the names of the

�� leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are

ordained: M�lk�'�l, Hel'emm�l�k, and M�l'�jal,

�� 14 and N�r�l. And the names of those who lead them:

Adn�r'�l, and Ij�s�sa'�l, and 'El�m�'�l ‑these

�� three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one that

follows the three leaders of the orders

�� which follow those leaders of stations that divide the four

parts of the year. 15 In the beginning of the

�� year Melkej�l rises first and rules, who is named Tam'�in� and

sun, and 16 all the days of his dominion

�� whilst he bears rule are ninety‑one days. And these are the

signs of the days which are to be seen on

�� earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms;

and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves

�� are produced on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and

the rose‑flowers, and all the flowers

�� which come forth in the field, but the trees of the winter

season 17 become withered. And these are

�� the names of the leaders which are under them: Berka'�l,

Z�lebs'�l, and another who is added a head

�� of a thousand, called H�l�j�seph: and the days of the

dominion of this (leader) are at an end. 18 The

�� next leader after him is H�l'emm�l�k, whom one names the

shining sun, and all the days 19 of his light

�� are ninety‑one days. And these are the signs of (his) days on

the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and

�� the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and

ready, and the sheep pair and become

�� pregnant, and all the fruits of the earth are gathered in, and

everything that is 20 in the fields, and the

�� winepress: these things take place in the days of his

dominion. These are the names, and the orders,

�� and the leaders of those heads of thousands: G�d�'�jal, K�'�l,

and H�'�l, and the name of the head of a

�� thousand which is added to them, Asf�'�l: and the days of his

dominion are at an end.

�� Section IV.

�� Chapters LXXXIII‑XC. The Dream‑Visions.

�� LXXXIII‑LXXXIV. First Dream‑Vision on the Deluge.

�� 83

�� 1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my

visions which I have seen, recounting 2 them

�� before thee. Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the

one was quite unlike the other: the first

�� when I was learning to write: the second before I took thy

mother, (when) I saw a terrible 3 vision.

�� And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down

in the house of my grandfather

�� Mahalalel, (when) I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed

and was borne off and fell to 4 the

�� earth. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was

swallowed up in a great abyss, and

�� mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank

down on hills, and high trees were rent 5 from

�� their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. And

thereupon a word fell into my mouth, 6 and I

�� lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and said: 'The earth is

destroyed.' And my grandfather Mahalalel

�� waked me as I lay near him, and said unto me: 'Why dost thou

cry so, my son, and why 7 dost thou

�� make such lamentation?' And I recounted to him the whole

vision which I had seen, and he said unto

�� me: 'A terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of grave

moment is thy dream‑ vision as to the

�� secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss

and be destroyed with 8 a great

�� destruction. And now, my son, arise and make petition to the

Lord of glory, since thou art a believer,

�� that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not

destroy the whole 9 earth. My son, from

�� heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth

there will be great 10 destruction. After

�� that I arose and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote

down my prayer 11 for the generations

�� of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son

Methuselah. And when I had gone forth

�� below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east,

and the moon setting in the west, and a few

�� stars, and the whole earth, and everything as He had known it

in the beginning, then I blessed the

�� Lord of judgement and extolled Him because He had made

the sun to go forth from the windows of

�� the east, and he ascended and rose on the face of the

heaven, and set out and kept traversing the path

�� shown unto him.

�� 84

�� 1 And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the

Holy and Great One, and spake with the

�� breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God

has made for the children of the flesh of

�� men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them

breath and a tongue and a mouth that they

�� should speak therewith:

�� 2 'Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,

�� Great and mighty in Thy greatness,

�� Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,

�� King of kings and God of the whole world.

�� And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever

and ever,

�� And throughout all generations Thy dominion;

�� And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,

�� And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.

�� 3 For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,

�� And nothing is too hard for Thee,

�� Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne,

�� Nor turns away from Thy presence.

�� And Thouknowest and seest and hearest everything,

�� And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest

everything].

�� 4 And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,

�� And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great

day of judgement.

�� 5 And now, O God and Lord and Great King,

�� I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,

�� To leave me a posterity on earth,

� ��And not destroy all the flesh of man,

�� And make the earth without inhabitant,

�� So that there should be an eternal destruction.

�� 6 And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which

has aroused Thy wrath,

�� But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a

plant of the eternal seed,

�� And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.'

�� LXXXV‑XC. Second Dream‑Vision of Enoch: the History of

the

�� World to the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom.

�� 85

�� 1,2 And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the

whole dream to thee, my son. And Enoch

�� lifted up (his voice) and spake to his son Methuselah: 'To

thee, my son, will I speak: hear my 3 words

�� ‑incline thine ear to the dream‑vision of thy father. Before I

took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on

�� my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth, and that

bull was white; and after it came forth a

�� heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one of

them black and 4 the other red. And

�� that black bull gored the red one and pursued him over the

earth, and thereupon 5 I could no longer

�� see that red bull. But that black bull grew and that heifer went

with him, and 6 I saw that many oxen

�� proceeded from him which resembled and followed him. And

that cow, that first one, went from the

�� presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but

found him 7 not, and lamented with a great

�� lamentation over him and sought him. And I looked till that

first 8 bull came to her and quieted her,

�� and from that time onward she cried no more. And after that

she bore another white bull, and after

�� him she bore many bulls and black cows. 9 And I saw in my

sleep that white bull likewise grow and

�� become a great white bull, and from Him proceeded many

white bulls, and they resembled him. And

�� they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled

them, one following the other, (even) many.

�� LXXXVI. The Fall of the Angels and the Demoralization of

Mankind.

�� 86

�� 1 And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the

heaven above, and behold a star fell 2 from

�� heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst those

oxen. And after that I saw the large and the

�� black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and

pastures and their cattle, and began 3 to live

�� with each other. And again I saw in the vision, and looked

towards the heaven, and behold I saw

�� many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven

to that first star, and they became 4 bulls

�� amongst those cattle and pastured with them [amongst

them]. And I looked at them and saw, and

�� behold they all let out their privy members, like horses, and

began to cover the cows of the oxen, 5

�� and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels,

and asses. And all the oxen feared them

�� and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth

and to devour, and to gore with their 6

�� horns. And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and

behold all the children of the earth

�� began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from

them.

�� LXXXVII. The Advent of the Seven Archangels.

�� 87

�� 1 And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to

devour each other, and the earth 2 began

�� to cry aloud. And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I

saw in the vision, and behold there came

�� forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four

went forth from that place 3 and three

�� with them. And those three that had last come forth grasped

me by my hand and took me up, away

�� from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty

place, and showed me 4 a tower raised

�� high above the earth, and all the hills were lower. And one

said unto me: 'Remain here till thou seest

�� everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses,

and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.'

�� LXXXVIII. The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by the

Archangels.

�� 88

�� 1 And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he

seized that first star which had fallen

�� from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into

an abyss: now that abyss was 2 narrow

�� and deep, and horrible and dark. And one of them drew a

sword, and gave it to those elephants and

�� camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and

the whole earth quaked 3 because of

�� them. And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of those

four who had come forth stoned (them)

�� from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose

privy members were like those of

�� horses, and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an

abyss of the earth.

�� LXXXIX.1‑9. The Deluge and the Deliverance of Noah.

�� 89

�� 1 And one of those four went to that white bull and instructed

him in a secret, without his being

�� terrified: he was born a bull and became a man, and built for

himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon;

�� 2 and three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel and they were

covered in. And again I raised mine eyes

�� towards heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven water

torrents thereon, and those torrents 3 flowed

�� with much water into an enclosure. And I saw again, and

behold fountains were opened on the

�� surface of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell

and rise upon the surface, 4 and I saw

�� that enclosure till all its surface was covered with water. And

the water, the darkness, and mist

�� increased upon it; and as I looked at the height of that water,

that water had risen above the height of

�� that enclosure, and was streaming over that enclosure, and it

stood upon the earth. 5 And all the cattle

�� of that enclosure were gathered together until I saw how they

sank and were 6 swallowed up and

�� perished in that water. But that vessel floated on the water,

while all the oxen and elephants and

�� camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so

that I could no longer 7 see them, and

�� they were not able to escape, (but) perished and sank into the

depths. And again I saw in the vision

�� till those water torrents were removed from that high roof,

and the chasms 8 of the earth were leveled

�� up and other abysses were opened. Then the water began to

run down into these, till the earth

�� became visible; but that vessel settled on the earth, and the

darkness 9 retired and light appeared. But

�� that white bull which had become a man came out of that

vessel, and the three bulls with him, and one

�� of those three was white like that bull, and one of them was

red as blood, and one black: and that

�� white bull departed from them.

�� LXXXIX.10‑27. From the Death of Noah to the Exodus.

�� 10 And they began to bring forth beasts of the field and birds,

so that there arose different genera:

�� lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes,

squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, 11

�� eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a white bull.

And they began to bite one another; but

�� that white bull which was born amongst them begat a wild ass

and a white bull with it, and the 12 wild

�� asses multiplied. But that bull which was born from him begat

a black wild boar and a white 13 sheep;

�� and the former begat many boars, but that sheep begat

twelve sheep. And when those twelve sheep

�� had grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those

asses again gave up that sheep 14 to the

�� wolves, and that sheep grew up among the wolves. And the

Lord brought the eleven sheep to live

�� with it and to pasture with it among the wolves: and they

multiplied and became many 15 flocks of

�� sheep. And the wolves began to fear them, and they

oppressed them until they destroyed their little

�� ones, and they cast their young into a river of much water:

but those sheep began to 16 cry aloud on

�� account of their little ones, and to complain unto their Lord.

And a sheep which had been saved from

�� the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the

sheep how they lamented and cried, and

�� besought their Lord with all their might, till that Lord of the

sheep descended 17 at the voice of the

�� sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured

them. And He called that sheep which had

�� escaped the wolves, and spake with it concerning the wolves

that it should 18 admonish them not to

�� touch the sheep. And the sheep went to the wolves according

to the word of the Lord, and another

�� sheep met it and went with it, and the two went and entered

together into the assembly of those

�� wolves, and spake with them and admonished them not to

touch the 19 sheep from henceforth. And

�� thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the

sheep 20 exceedingly with all their power;

�� and the sheep cried aloud. And the Lord came to the sheep

and they began to smite those wolves:

�� and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep

became 21 quiet and forthwith ceased to cry

�� out. And I saw the sheep till they departed from amongst the

wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were

�� blinded, and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep 22

with all their power. And the Lord of the

�� sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep 23

followed Him: and his face was dazzling

�� and glorious and terrible to behold. But the wolves 24 began

to pursue those sheep till they reached a

�� sea of water. And that sea was divided, and the water stood

on this side and on that before their face,

�� and their Lord led them and placed Himself between 25 them

and the wolves. And as those wolves

�� did not yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of

that sea, and the wolves followed the

�� sheep, and [those wolves] ran after them into that sea. 26 And

when they saw the Lord of the sheep,

�� they turned to flee before His face, but that sea gathered itself

together, and became as it had been

�� created, and the water swelled and rose till it covered 27

those wolves. And I saw till all the wolves

�� who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned.

�� LXXXIX.28‑40. Israel in the Desert, the Giving of the Law, the

Entrance into Palestine.

�� 28 But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into

a wilderness, where there was no water

�� and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and to see;

and I saw the Lord of the sheep 29

�� pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and that

sheep going and leading them. And that 30

�� sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock, and the Lord

of the sheep sent it to them. And after

�� that I saw the Lord of the sheep who stood before them, and

His appearance was great and 31

�� terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him and were

afraid before His face. And they all

�� feared and trembled because of Him, and they cried to that

sheep with them [which was amongst 32

�� them]: 'We are not able to stand before our Lord or to behold

Him.' And that sheep which led them

�� again ascended to the summit of that rock, but the sheep

began to be blinded and to wander 33 from

�� the way which he had showed them, but that sheep wot not

thereof. And the Lord of the sheep was

�� wrathful exceedingly against them, and that sheep

discovered it, and went down from the summit of

�� the rock, and came to the sheep, and found the greatest part

of them blinded and fallen 34 away. And

�� when they saw it they feared and trembled at its presence,

and desired to return to their 35 folds. And

�� that sheep took other sheep with it, and came to those sheep

which had fallen away, and began to

�� slay them; and the sheep feared its presence, and thus that

sheep brought back those 36 sheep that

�� had fallen away, and they returned to their folds. And I saw in

this vision till that sheep became a man

�� and built a house for the Lord of the sheep, and placed all the

sheep in that house. 37 And I saw till

�� this sheep which had met that sheep which led them fell

asleep: and I saw till all the great sheep

�� perished and little ones arose in their place, and they came to

a pasture, and 38 approached a stream

�� of water. Then that sheep, their leader which had become a

man, withdrew 39 from them and fell

�� asleep, and all the sheep sought it and cried over it with a

great crying. And I saw till they left off

�� crying for that sheep and crossed that stream of water, and

there arose the two sheep as leaders in

�� the place of those which had led them and fallen asleep (lit.

'had fallen asleep and led 40 them'). And I

�� saw till the sheep came to a goodly place, and a pleasant and

glorious land, and I saw till those sheep

�� were satisfied; and that house stood amongst them in the

pleasant land.

�� LXXXIX.41‑50. From the Time of the Judges to the

Building of the Temple.

�� 41 And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes

blinded, till another sheep arose and led

�� them and brought them all back, and their eyes were opened.

42 And the dogs and the foxes and the

�� wild boars began to devour those sheep till the Lord of the

sheep raised up [another sheep] a ram

�� from their 43 midst, which led them. And that ram began to

butt on either side those dogs, foxes, and

�� wild 44 boars till he had destroyed them all. And that sheep

whose eyes were opened saw that ram,

�� which was amongst the sheep, till it forsook its glory and

began to butt those sheep, and trampled

�� upon them, and behaved itself 45 unseemly. And the Lord of

the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb

�� and raised it to being a ram and leader of the sheep instead of

that 46 ram which had forsaken its

�� glory. And it went to it and spake to it alone, and raised it to

being a ram, and made it the prince and

�� leader of the sheep; but during all these things those dogs 47

oppressed the sheep. And the first ram

�� pursued that second ram, and that second ram arose and fled

before it; and I saw till those dogs

�� pulled 48 down the first ram. And that second ram arose 49

and led the [little] sheep. And those sheep

�� grew and multiplied; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild

boars feared and fled before it, and that ram

�� butted and killed the wild beasts, and those wild beasts had

no longer any power among the 48b

�� sheep and robbed them no more of ought. And that ram begat

many sheep and fell asleep; and a little

�� sheep became ram in its stead, and became prince and

leader of those sheep. 50 And that house

�� became great and broad, and it was built for those sheep:

(and) a tower lofty and great was built on

�� the house for the Lord of the sheep, and that house was low,

but the tower was elevated and lofty,

�� and the Lord of the sheep stood on that tower and they

offered a full table before Him.

��LXXXIX.51‑67. The Two Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the

Destruction of Jerusalem.

�� 51 And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and

went many ways, and forsook that their

�� house, and the Lord of the sheep called some from amongst

the sheep and sent them to the sheep, 52

�� but the sheep began to slay them. And one of them was

saved and was not slain, and it sped away

�� and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to slay it, but

the Lord of the sheep saved it from 53

�� the sheep, and brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell

there. And many other sheep He sent 54 to

�� those sheep to testify unto them and lament over them. And

after that I saw that when they forsook

�� the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely,

and their eyes were blinded; and I saw

�� the Lord of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter

amongst them in their herds until 55 those

�� sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place. And He

gave them over into the hands of the

�� lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand of

the foxes, and to all the wild 56 beasts,

�� and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep.

And I saw that He forsook that their house

�� and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions, to

tear and devour them, 57 into the hand

�� of all the wild beasts. And I began to cry aloud with all my

power, and to appeal to the Lord of the

�� sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that

they were devoured 58 by all the wild

�� beasts. But He remained unmoved, though He saw it, and

rejoiced that they were devoured and

�� swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the

hand of all the beasts. 59 And He called

�� seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they

might pasture them, and He spake to the

�� shepherds and their companions: 'Let each individual of you

pasture the sheep 60 henceforward, and

�� everything that I shall command you that do ye. And I will

deliver them over unto you duly numbered,

�� and tell you which of them are to be destroyed‑and them

destroy ye.' And 61 He gave over unto them

�� those sheep. And He called another and spake unto him:

'Observe and mark everything that the

�� shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more

of them than 62 I have commanded them.

�� And every excess and the destruction which will be wrought

through the shepherds, record (namely)

�� how many they destroy according to my command, and how

many according to their own caprice:

�� record against every individual shepherd all the destruction

he 63 effects. And read out before me by

��number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver

over for destruction, that I may have this

�� as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the

shepherds, that I may comprehend and see

�� what they do, whether or not they abide by my 64 command

which I have commanded them. But they

�� shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to them, nor

admonish them, but only record against

�� each individual all the destruction which 65 the shepherds

effect each in his time and lay it all before

�� me.' And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season,

and they began to slay and to destroy

�� more than they were bidden, and they delivered 66 those

sheep into the hand of the lions. And the

�� lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those

sheep, and the wild boars eat along with

�� them; and they burnt that tower and demolished 67 that

house. And I became exceedingly sorrowful

�� over that tower because that house of the sheep was

demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see

�� if those sheep entered that house.

�� LXXXIX.68‑71. First Period of the Angelic Rulers ‑from the

Destruction of Jerusalem to the

�� Return from Captivity.

�� 68 And the shepherds and their associates delivered over

those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour

�� them, and each one of them received in his time a definite

number: it was written by the other 69 in a

�� book how many each one of them destroyed of them. And

each one slew and destroyed many 70

�� more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and lament

on account of those sheep. And thus in

�� the vision I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote down

every one that was destroyed by those

�� shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid down and

showed actually the whole book to the

�� Lord of the sheep‑(even) everything that they had done, and

all that each one of them had made 71

�� away with, and all that they had given over to destruction.

And the book was read before the Lord of

�� the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read it and

sealed it and laid it down.

�� LXXXIX.72‑77. Second Period ‑from the Time of Cyrus to that

of Alexander the Great.

�� 72 And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve

hours, and behold three of those sheep

�� turned back and came and entered and began to build up all

that had fallen down of that 73 house; but

�� the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able.

And they began again to build as before,

�� and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high

tower; and they began again to place a table

�� before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not

pure. 74 And as touching all this the eyes

�� of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and (the

eyes of) their shepherds likewise; and they

�� delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for 75

destruction, and they trampled the sheep

�� with their feet and devoured them. And the Lord of the sheep

remained unmoved till all the sheep

�� were dispersed over the field and mingled with them (i.e. the

76 beasts), and they (i.e. the shepherds)

�� did not save them out of the hand of the beasts. And this one

who wrote the book carried it up, and

�� showed it and read it before the Lord of the sheep, and

implored Him on their account, and besought

�� Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings 77 of

the shepherds, and gave testimony before

�� Him against all the shepherds. And he took the actual book

and laid it down beside Him and

�� departed.

�� XC.1‑5. Third Period ‑from Alexander the Great to the

Graeco‑Syrian Domination.

�� 90

�� 1 And I saw till that in this manner thirty‑five shepherds

undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and

�� they severally completed their periods as did the first; and

others received them into their 2 hands, to

�� pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own

period. And after that I saw in my vision all

�� the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the

kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the

�� birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out

their eyes and to 3 devour their flesh.

�� And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being

devoured by the birds, 4 and as for me I

�� looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who

pastured the sheep. And I saw until those

�� sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and

they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew

�� remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and their

bones too fell 5 to the earth and the sheep

�� became few. And I saw until that twenty‑three had undertaken

the pasturing and completed in their

�� several periods fifty‑eight times.

�� XC.6‑12. Fourth Period ‑from the Graeco‑Syrian Domination

to the Maccabean Revolt.

�� 6 But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and

they began to open their eyes and to see, 7

�� and to cry to the sheep. Yea, they cried to them, but they did

not hearken to what they said to 8

�� them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very

exceedingly blinded. And I saw in the

�� vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of

those lambs, and dashed the sheep 9 in

�� pieces and devoured them. And I saw till horns grew upon

those lambs, and the ravens cast down

�� their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of

those sheep, and their eyes 10 were

�� opened. And it looked at them [and their eyes opened], and it

cried to the sheep, and the 11 rams saw

�� it and all ran to it. And notwithstanding all this those eagles

and vultures and ravens and kites still kept

�� tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and

devouring them: still the 12 sheep remained

�� silent, but the rams lamented and cried out. And those ravens

fought and battled with it and sought to

�� lay low its horn, but they had no power over it.

�� XC.13‑19. The last Assault of the Gentiles on the Jews (where

vv. 13‑15 and 16‑18 are doublets).

�� 13 And I saw till the shepherds and eagles and those vultures

�� and kites came, and they cried to the ravens that they should

�� break the horn of that ram, and they battled and fought with it,

�� and it battled with them and cried that its help might come.

�� 16 All the eagles and vultures and

ravens and kites were

�� gathered together, and there came

with them all the sheep of

�� the field, yea, they all came

together, and helped each other to

�� break that horn of the ram.

�� 19 And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and

the sheep proceeded against all the beasts

�� of the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of

the heaven fled before their face.

�� 14 And I saw till that man, who wrote down the names of the

�� shepherds [and] carried up into the presence of the Lord of

�� the sheep [came and helped it and showed it everything: he

�� had come down for the help of that ram].

�� 17 And I saw that man, who wrote

the book according to the

�� command of the Lord, till he opened

that book concerning the

�� destruction which those twelve last

shepherds had wrought,

�� and showed that they had

destroyed much more than their

�� predecessors, before the Lord of

the sheep.

�� 15 And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto them in

�� wrath, and all who saw Him fled, and they all fell into His

�� shadow from before His face.

�� 18 And I saw till the Lord of the

sheep came unto them and

�� took in His hand the staff of His

wrath, and smote the earth,

�� and the earth clave asunder, and all

the beasts and all the birds

�� of the heaven fell from among

those sheep, and were

�� swallowed up in the earth and it

covered them.

�� XC.20‑27. Judgement of the Fallen Angels, the Shepherds,

and the Apostates.

�� 20 And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant land,

and the Lord of the sheep sat Himself

�� thereon, and the other took the sealed books and opened

those books before the Lord of the sheep.

�� 21 And the Lord called those men the seven first white ones,

and commanded that they should bring

�� before Him, beginning with the first star which led the way, all

the stars whose privy members 22 were

�� like those of horses, and they brought them all before Him.

And He said to that man who wrote

�� before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said

unto him: 'Take those seventy shepherds

�� to whom I delivered the sheep, and who taking them on their

own authority slew more 23 than I

�� commanded them.' And behold they were all bound, I saw,

and they all stood before Him. 24 And the

�� judgement was held first over the stars, and they were

judged and found guilty, and went to the place

�� of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss, full of fire

and flaming, and full 25 of pillars of fire.

�� And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty,

and they were cast 26 into that fiery

�� abyss. And I saw at that time how a like abyss was opened in

the midst of the earth, full of fire, and

�� they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged

and found guilty and 27 cast into this fiery

�� abyss, and they burned; now this abyss was to the right of

that house. And I saw those sheep burning

�� and their bones burning.

�� XC.28‑42. The New Jerusalem, the Conversion of the surviving

Gentiles, the Resurrection of the

�� Righteous, the Messiah. Enoch awakes and weeps.

�� 28 And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and

carried off all the pillars, and all the

�� beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time

folded up with it, and they carried 29 it off

�� and laid it in a place in the south of the land. And I saw till the

Lord of the sheep brought a new house

�� greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place of

the first which had beer folded up: all its

�� pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than

those of the first, the old one which He

�� had taken away, and all the sheep were within it. 30 And I saw

all the sheep which had been left, and

�� all the beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the heaven,

falling down and doing homage to those

�� sheep and making petition to and obeying 31 them in every

thing. And thereafter those three who were

�� clothed in white and had seized me by my hand [who had

taken me up before], and the hand of that

�� ram also seizing hold of me, they 32 took me up and set me

down in the midst of those sheep before

�� the judgement took place. And those 33 sheep were all white,

and their wool was abundant and clean.

�� And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the

beasts of the field, and all the birds of the

�� heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the sheep

rejoiced with great joy because they were

�� all good and had returned to 34 His house. And I saw till they

laid down that sword, which had been

�� given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house,

and it was sealed before the presence of

�� the Lord, and all the sheep 35 were invited into that house,

but it held them not. And the eyes of them

�� all were opened, and they 36 saw the good, and there was not

one among them that did not see. And

�� I saw that that house was large and broad and very full. 37

And I saw that a white bull was born, with

�� large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the 38 birds

of the air feared him and made petition to

�� him all the time. And I saw till all their generations were

transformed, and they all became white bulls;

�� and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb

became a great animal and had great black

�� horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep 39 rejoiced over

it and over all the oxen. And I slept in

�� their midst: and I awoke and saw everything. 40 This is the

vision which I saw while I slept, and I

�� awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and 41 gave

Him glory. Then I wept with a great

�� weeping and my tears stayed not till I could no longer endure

it: when I saw, they flowed on account

�� of what I had seen; for everything shall come and 42 be

fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order

�� were shown to me. On that night I remembered the first

dream, and because of it I wept and was

�� troubled‑because I had seen that vision.

�� Section V. XCI‑CIV (i.e. XCII, XCI. 1‑1O, 18‑19,

�� XCIII. 1‑1O, XCI. 12‑17, XCIV‑CIV.).

�� A Book of Exhortation and Promised Blessing for

�� the Righteous and of Malediction and Woe for the

�� Sinners.

�� XCII, XCI.1‑10, 18‑19. Enoch's Book of Admonition for his

�� Children.

�� 92

�� 1 The book written by Enoch ‑[Enoch indeed wrote this

complete doctrine of wisdom, (which is)

�� praised of all men and a judge of all the earth] for all my

children who shall dwell on the earth. And

�� for the future generations who shall observe uprightness and

peace.

�� 2 Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;

�� For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things.

�� 3 And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,

�� [Shall arise] and walk in the paths of righteousness,

�� And all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness

and grace.

�� 4 He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal

uprightness,

�� And He will give him power so that he shall be (endowed)

with goodness and righteousness.

�� And he shall walk in eternal light.

�� 5 And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,

�� And shall no more be seen from that day for evermore.

�� XCI.1‑10, 18‑19. Enoch's Admonition to his Children.

�� 91

�� 1 'And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers

�� And gather together to me all the sons of thy mother;

�� For the word calls me,

�� And the spirit is poured out upon me,

�� That I may show you everything

�� That shall befall you for ever.'

�� 2 And thereupon Methuselah went and summoned to him all

his brothers and assembled his relatives.

�� 3 And he spake unto all the children of righteousness and

said:

�� 'Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father,

�� And hearken aright to the voice of my mouth;

�� For I exhort you and say unto you, beloved:

�� 4 Love uprightness and walk therein.

�� And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,

�� And associate not with those of a double heart,

�� But walk in righteousness, my sons.

�� And it shall guide you on good paths,

�� And righteousness shall be your companion.

�� 5 For I know that violence must increase on the earth,

�� And a great chastisement be executed on the earth,

�� And all unrighteousness come to an end:

�� Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,

�� And its whole structure be destroyed.

�� 6 And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the

earth,

�� And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence

�� And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.

�� 7 And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy

�� And violence in all kinds of deeds increase,

�� And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase,

�� A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these,

�� And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and

chastisement

�� To execute judgement on earth.

�� 8 In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,

�� And the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,

�� And they shall be destroyed from under heaven.

�� 9 And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,

�� And the temples burned with fire,

�� And they shall remove them from the whole earth,

�� And they (i.e. the heathen) shall be cast into the judgement of

fire,

�� And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.

�� 10 And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,

�� And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.

�� 11 [And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut

off, and the sinners shall be destroyed by

�� the sword ... shall be cut off from the blasphemers in every

place, and those who plan violence and

�� those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the sword.]

�� 18 And now I tell you, my sons, and show you

�� The paths of righteousness and the paths of violence.

�� Yea, I will show them to you again

�� That ye may know what will come to pass.

�� 19 And now, hearken unto me, my sons,

�� And walk in the paths of righteousness,

�� And walk not in the paths of violence;

�� For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish

for ever.'

�� XCIII, XCI.12‑17. The Apocalypse of Weeks.

�� 93

�� 1,2 And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from

the books. And Enoch said:

�� 'Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the

elect of the world,

�� And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these

things,

�� Yea, I Enoch will declare (them) unto you, my sons:

�� According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly

vision,

�� And which I have known through the word of the holy angels,

�� And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.'

�� 3 And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:

�� 'I was born the seventh in the first week,

�� While judgement and righteousness still endured.

�� 4 And after me there shall arise in the second week great

wickedness,

�� And deceit shall have sprung up;

�� And in it there shall be the first end.

�� And in it a man shall be saved;

�� And after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up,

�� And a law shall be made for the sinners.

�� 5 And after that in the third week at its close

�� A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement,

�� And his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for

evermore.

�� 6 And after that in the fourth week, at its close,

�� Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen,

�� And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made

for them.

�� 7 And after that in the fifth week, at its close,

��The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.

�� 8 And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be

blinded,

�� And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.

�� And in it a man shall ascend;

�� And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire,

�� And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.

�� 9 And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate

generation arise,

�� And many shall be its deeds,

�� And all its deeds shall be apostate.

�� 10 And at its close shall be elected

�� The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,

�� To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.

�� 11 [For who is there of all the children of men that is able to

hear the voice of the Holy One without

�� being troubled? And who can think His thoughts? and who is

there that can behold all the works 12 of

�� heaven? And how should there be one who could behold the

heaven, and who is there that could

�� understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and

could tell thereof, or ascend and see 13

�� all their ends and think them or do like them? And who is

there of all men that could know what is the

�� breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been

shown the measure of all of them? 14 Or is

�� there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and

how great is its height, and upon what it

�� is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and

where all the luminaries rest?]

�� XCI.12‑17. The Last Three Weeks.

�� 91

�� 12 And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that

of righteousness,

�� And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement

may be executed on the oppressors,

�� And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the

righteous.

�� 13 And at its close they shall acquire houses through their

righteousness,

�� And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for

evermore,

�� 14d And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.

�� 14a And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement

shall be revealed to the whole world,

�� b And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the

earth,

�� c And the world shall be written down for destruction.

�� 15 And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,

�� There shall be the great eternal judgement,

�� In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.

�� 16 And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,

�� And a new heaven shall appear,

�� And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.

�� 17 And after that there will be many weeks without number

for ever,

�� And all shall be in goodness and righteousness,

�� And sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.

�� XCIV.1‑5. Admonitions to the Righteous.

�� 94

�� 1 And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and

walk therein;

�� For the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation,

�� But the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be

destroyed and vanish.

�� 2 And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of

violence and of death be revealed,

�� And they shall hold themselves afar from them,

�� And shall not follow them.

�� 3 And now I say unto you the righteous:

�� Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death,

�� And draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.

�� 4 But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an

elect life,

��And walk in the paths of peace,

�� And ye shall live and prosper.

�� 5 And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts,

�� And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts;

�� For I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly‑entreat

wisdom,

�� So that no place may be found for her,

�� And no manner of temptation may minish.

�� XCIV.6‑11. Woes for the Sinners.

�� 6 Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression

�� And lay deceit as a foundation;

�� For they shall be suddenly overthrown,

�� And they shall have no peace.

�� 7 Woe to those who build their houses with sin;

�� For from all their foundations shall they be overthrown,

�� And by the sword shall they fall.

�� [And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement

suddenly shall perish.]

�� 8 Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,

�� And from your riches shall ye depart,

�� Because ye have not remembered the Most High in the days

of your riches.

�� 9 Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness,

�� And have become ready for the day of slaughter,

�� And the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.

�� 10 Thus I speak and declare unto you:

�� He who hath created you will overthrow you,

�� And for your fall there shall be no compassion,

�� And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.

� ��11 And your righteous ones in those days shall be

�� A reproach to the sinners and the godless.

�� XCV. Enoch's Grief: fresh Woes against the Sinners.

�� 95

�� 1 Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters

�� That I might weep over you,

�� And pour down my tears as a cloud of waters:

�� That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!

�� 2 Who has permitted you to practice reproaches and

wickedness?

�� And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.

�� 3 Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;

�� For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands,

�� That ye may execute judgement upon them according to your

desires.

�� 4 Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be

reversed:

�� Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.

�� 5 Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil;

�� For ye shall be requited according to your works.

�� 6 Woe to you, lying witnesses,

�� And to those who weigh out injustice,

�� For suddenly shall ye perish.

�� 7 Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;

�� For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of

injustice,

�� And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.

�� XCVI. Grounds of Hopefulness for the Righteous: Woes

for the Wicked.

�� 96

�� 1 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners

perish before you,

�� And ye shall have lordship over them according to your

desires.

�� 2 [And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,

�� Your children shall mount and rise as eagles,

�� And higher than the vultures will be your nest,

�� And ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,

�� And the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the

unrighteous,

�� And the sirens shall sigh because of you‑and weep.]

�� 3 Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered;

�� For healing shall be your portion,

�� And a bright light shall enlighten you,

�� And the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven.

�� 4 Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear

like the righteous,

�� But your hearts convict you of being sinners,

�� And this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial

of (your) evil deeds.

�� 5 Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,

�� And drink wine in large bowls,

�� And tread under foot the lowly with your might.

�� 6 Woe to you who drink water from every fountain,

�� For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away,

�� Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.

�� 7 Woe to you who work unrighteousness

�� And deceit and blasphemy:

�� It shall be a memorial against you for evil.

�� 8 Woe to you, ye mighty,

�� Who with might oppress the righteous;

�� For the day of your destruction is coming.

�� In those days many and good days shall come to the

righteous ‑in the day of your judgement.

�� XCVII. The Evils in Store for Sinners and the Possessors of

Unrighteous Wealth.

�� 97

�� 1 Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame

�� And perish in the day of unrighteousness.

�� 2 Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most High is

mindful of your destruction,

�� And the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.

�� 3 What will ye do, ye sinners,

�� And whither will ye flee on that day of judgement,

�� When ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?

�� 4 Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,

�� Against whom this word shall be a testimony:

�� "Ye have been companions of sinners."

�� 5 And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach

unto the Lord,

�� And for you the days of your judgement shall come.

�� 6 And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out

before the Great Holy One,

�� And your faces shall be covered with shame,

�� And He will reject every work which is grounded on

unrighteousness.

�� 7 Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on

the dry land,

�� Whose remembrance is evil against you.

�� 8 Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness

and say:

�� "We have become rich with riches and have possessions;

�� And have acquired everything we have desired.

�� 9 And now let us do what we purposed:

�� For we have gathered silver,

�� 9c And many are the husbandmen in our houses."

�� 9d And our granaries are (brim) full as with water,

�� 10 Yea and like water your lies shall flow away;

�� For your riches shall not abide

�� But speedily ascend from you;

�� For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness,

�� And ye shall be given over to a great curse.

�� XCVIII. Self‑indulgence of Sinners: Sin originated by Man: all

Sin recorded in Heaven: Woes for

�� the Sinners.

�� 98

�� 1 And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish,

�� For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.

�� 2 For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,

�� And coloured garments more than a virgin:

�� In royalty and in grandeur and in power,

�� And in silver and in gold and in purple,

�� And in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as

water.

�� 3 Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,

�� And they shall perish thereby together with their

possessions;

�� And with all their glory and their splendour,

�� And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution,

�� Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.

�� 4 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not

become a slave,

�� And a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman,

�� Even so sin has not been sent upon the earth,

�� But man of himself has created it,

�� And under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.

�� 5 And barrenness has not been given to the woman,

�� But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies

without children.

�� 6 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,

�� That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,

�� And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and

hidden.

�� 7 And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye

do not know and that ye do not see 8

�� that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the

presence of the Most High. From henceforthye

�� know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is

written down every day till the day of your

�� judgement.

�� 9 Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish:

and ye transgress against the wise, 10

�� and so good hap shall not be your portion. And now, know ye

that ye are prepared for the day of

�� destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye

shall depart and die; for ye know no

�� ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great

judgement, for the day of tribulation and great

�� shame for your spirits.

�� 11 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness

and eat blood: Whence have ye good

�� things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good

things which the Lord the Most High has

�� placed in abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no

peace. 12 Woe to you who love the

�� deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good

hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be

�� delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut

13 off your necks and slay you, and have

�� no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation

14 of the righteous; for no grave shall be

�� dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of 15

the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of

�� life. Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for

they write down their lies that men may

�� hear them and act godlessly towards (their) 16 neighbour.

Therefore they shall have no peace but die a

�� sudden death.

�� XCIX. Woes pronounced on the Godless, the Lawbreakers:

evil Plight of Sinners in The Last

�� Days: further Woes.

�� 99

�� 1 Woe to you who work godlessness,

�� And glory in lying and extol them:

�� Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.

�� 2 Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,

�� And transgress the eternal law,

�� And transform themselves into what they were not [into

sinners]:

�� They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.

�� 3 In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your

prayers as a memorial,

�� And place them as a testimony before the angels,

�� That they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial

before the Most High.

�� 4 In those days the nations shall be stirred up,

�� And the families of the nations shall arise on the day of

destruction.

�� 5 And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off

their children,

�� And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall

perish through them:

�� Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still)

sucklings, and not return to them,

�� And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

�� 6,7 And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared

for a day of unceasing bloodshed. And

�� they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and

silver and wood (and stone) and clay, and

�� those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds

of idols not according to knowledge,

�� shall get no manner of help from them.

�� 8 And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of

their hearts,

�� And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their

hearts

�� And through visions in their dreams.

�� 9 Through these they shall become godless and fearful;

�� For they shall have wrought all their work in a lie,

�� And shall have worshiped a stone:

�� Therefore in an instant shall they perish.

�� 10 But in those days blessed are all they who accept the

words of wisdom, and understand them,

�� And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path

of His righteousness,

�� And become not godless with the godless;

�� For they shall be saved.

�� 11 Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;

�� For you shall be slain in Sheol.

�� 12 Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,

�� And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth;

�� For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.

�� 13 Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous

toil of others,

�� And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of

sin;

�� I tell you ye shall have no peace.

�� 14 Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage

of their fathers

�� And whose souls follow after idols;

�� For they shall have no rest.

�� 15 Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help

oppression,

�� And slay their neighbours until the day of the great

judgement.

�� 16 For He shall cast down your glory,

�� And bring affliction on your hearts,

�� And shall arouse His fierce indignation

�� And destroy you all with the sword;

�� And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.

�� C. The Sinners destroy each other: Judgement of the Fallen

Angels: the Safety of the Righteous:

�� further Woes for the Sinners.

�� 100

�� 1 And in those days in one place the fathers together with

their sons shall be smitten

�� And brothers one with another shall fall in death

�� Till the streams flow with their blood.

�� 2 For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons

and his sons' sons,

�� And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured

brother:

�� From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.

�� 3 And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of

sinners,

�� And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.

�� 4 In those days the angels shall descend into the secret

places

�� And gather together into one place all those who brought

down sin

�� And the Most High will arise on that day of judgement

�� To execute great judgement amongst sinners.

�� 5 And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint

guardians from amongst the holy angels

�� To guard them as the apple of an eye,

�� Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin,

�� And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have

nought to fear.

�� 6 And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise in

security,

�� And shall understand all the words of this book,

�� And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them

�� In the overthrow of their sins.

�� 7 Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of strong anguish,

�� Ye who afflict the righteous and burn them with fire:

�� Ye shall be requited according to your works.

�� 8 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,

�� Who watch in order to devise wickedness:

�� Therefore shall fear come upon you

�� And there shall be none to help you.

�� 9 Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your

mouth,

�� And on account of the deeds of your hands which your

godlessness as wrought,

�� In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.

�� 10 And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as

to your deeds in heaven, from the sun

�� and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your

sins because upon the earth ye execute 11

�� judgement on the righteous. And He will summon to testify

against you every cloud and mist and dew

�� and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you from

descending upon you, and they 12 shall be

�� mindful of your sins. And now give presents to the rain that it

be not withheld from descending upon

�� you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver

from you that it may descend. 13 When the

�� hoar‑frost and snow with their chilliness, and all the

snow‑storms with all their plagues fall upon you,

�� in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.

�� CI. Exhortation to the fear of God: all Nature fears Him but

not the Sinners.

�� 101

�� 1 Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work

of the Most High, and fear ye Him 2

�� and work no evil in His presence. If He closes the windows of

heaven, and withholds the rain and 3

�� the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what

will ye do then? And if He sends His

�� anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition

Him; for ye spake proud and insolent 4

�� words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no

peace. And see ye not the sailors of the

�� ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and

are shaken by the winds, and are 5 in

�� sore trouble? And therefore do they fear because all their

goodly possessions go upon the sea with

�� them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will

swallow them and they will 6 perish

�� therein. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its

movements, the work of the Most 7 High,

�� and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it

throughout by the sand? And at His reproof it is

�� afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; But

ye sinners that are 8 on the earth fear Him

�� not. Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is

therein? Who has given understanding

�� and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the

sea. 9 Do not the sailors of the ships fear

�� the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most High.

�� CII. Terrors of the Day of Judgement: the adverse Fortunes of

the Righteous on the Earth.

�� 102

�� 1 In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon

you,

�� Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance?

�� And when He launches forth His Word against you Will you

not be affrighted and fear?

�� 2 And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,

�� And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be

alarmed.

�� 3 And all the angels shall execute their commands

�� And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the

Great Glory,

�� And the children of earth shall tremble and quake;

�� And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,

�� And ye shall have no peace.

�� 4 Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,

�� And be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.

�� 5 And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in

grief,

�� And that in your life your body fared not according to your

goodness,

�� But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners

�� And for the day of cursing and chastisement.

�� 6 And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:

�� "As we die, so die the righteous,

�� And what benefit do they reap for their deeds?

�� 7 Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,

�� And what have they more than we?

�� From henceforth we are equal.

�� 8 And what will they receive and what will they see for ever?

�� Behold, they too have died,

�� And henceforth for ever shall they see no light."

�� 9 I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and

rob and sin, and strip men naked, and 10

�� acquire wealth and see good days. Have ye seen the

righteous how their end falls out, that no manner

�� 11 of violence is found in them till their death? "Nevertheless

they perished and became as though they

�� had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in

tribulation."

�� CIII. Different Destinies of the Righteous and the Sinners:

fresh Objections of the Sinners.

�� 103

�� 1 Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of

the Great and Honoured and 2 Mighty

�� One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you.

�� I know a mystery

�� And have read the heavenly tablets,

�� And have seen the holy books,

�� And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:

�� 3 That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,

�� And written down for the spirits of those who have died in

righteousness,

�� And that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense

for your labours,

�� And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living.

�� 4 And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall

live and rejoice,

�� And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from

before the face of the Great One

�� Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer

fear their contumely.

�� 5 Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died,

�� If ye die in the wealth of your sins,

�� And those who are like you say regarding you:

�� "Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days.

�� 6 And how they have died in prosperity and in wealth,

�� And have not seen tribulation or murder in their life;

�� And they have died in honour,

�� And judgement has not been executed on them during their

life."

�� 7 Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into

Sheol

�� And they shall be wretched in their great tribulation.

�� 8 And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where

there is grievous judgement shall your

�� spirits enter;

�� And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the

world.

�� Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.

�� 9 Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life:

�� "In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and

experienced every trouble,

�� And met with much evil and been consumed,

�� And have become few and our spirit small.

�� 10 And we have been destroyed and have not found any to

help us even with a word:

�� We have been tortured [and destroyed], and not hoped to see

life from day to day.

�� 11 We hoped to be the head and have become the tail:

�� We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil;

�� And we have become the food of the sinners and the

unrighteous,

�� And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us.

�� 12 They have had dominion over us that hated us and smote

us;

�� And to those that hated us we have bowed our necks

�� But they pitied us not.

�� 13 We desired to get away from them that we might escape

and be at rest,

�� But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe

from them.

�� 14 And are complained to the rulers in our tribulation,

�� And cried out against those who devoured us,

�� But they did not attend to our cries

�� And would not hearken to our voice.

�� 15 And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us

and those who made us few; and they

�� concealed their oppression, and they did not remove from us

the yoke of those that devoured us and

�� dispersed us and murdered us, and they concealed their

murder, and remembered not that they had

��lifted up their hands against us.

�� CIV. Assurances given to the Righteous: Admonitions to

Sinners and the Falsifiers of the Words

�� of Uprightness.

�� 104

�� 1 I swear unto you, that in heaven the angelsremember you

for good before the glory of the Great 2

�� One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great

One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye

�� were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall

shine as the lights of heaven, 3 ye shall

�� shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be

opened to you. And in your cry, cry for

�� judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation

shall be visited on the 4 rulers, and on all

�� who helped those who plundered you. Be hopeful, and cast

not away your hope; 5 for ye shall have

�� great joy as the angels of heaven. What shall ye be obliged to

do? Ye shall not have to hide on the

�� day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as

sinners, and the eternal 6 judgement shall be

�� far from you for all the generations of the world. And now fear

not, ye righteous, when ye see the

�� sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not

companions with them, 7 but keep afar

�� from their violence; for ye shall become companions of the

hosts of heaven. And, although ye sinners

�� say: "All our sins shall not be searched out and be written

down," nevertheless 8 they shall write down

�� all your sins every day. And now I show unto you that light

and darkness, 9 day and night, see all your

�� sins. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not

the words of uprightness, nor charge with

�� lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take account of

your 10 idols; for all your lying and all your

�� godlessness issue not in righteousness but in great sin. And

now I know this mystery, that sinners will

�� alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways,

and will speak wicked words, and lie, and

�� practice great deceits, and write books concerning 11 their

words. But when they write down truthfully

�� all my words in their languages, and do not change or minish

ought from my words but write them all

�� down truthfully ‑all that I first testified 12 concerning them.

Then, I know another mystery, that books

�� will be given to the righteous and the 13 wise to become a

cause of joy and uprightness and much

�� wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall

believe in them and rejoice over them,

�� and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all

the paths of uprightness be

�� recompensed.'

�� CV. God and the Messiah to dwell with Man.

�� 105

�� 1 In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify

to the children of earth concerning their

�� wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and a

recompense over the whole earth. 2 For I

�� and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of

uprightness in their lives; and ye shall

�� have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.

�� Fragment of the Book of Noah

�� 106

�� 1 And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his

son Lamech, and she became 2

�� pregnant by him and bore a son. And his body was white as

snow and red as the blooming of a rose,

�� and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as

wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he

�� opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun,

and the whole house 3 was very bright.

�� And thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened

his mouth, and conversed with the Lord

�� of righteousness. 4 And his father Lamech was afraid of him

and 5 fled, and came to his father

�� Methuselah. And he said unto him: 'I have begotten a strange

son, diverse from and unlike man, and

�� resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is

different and he is not like us, and his eyes

�� are as the rays of the sun, and his 6 countenance is glorious.

And it seems to me that he is not sprung

�� from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a

wonder may be 7 wrought on the earth. And

�� now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore thee

that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father,

�� and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling‑place is 8

amongst the angels.' And when Methuselah

�� heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the

earth; for he had heard that I was there,

�� and he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him.

And I said unto him: 'Behold, here am I,

�� my son, wherefore hast 9 thou come to me?' And he

answered and said: 'Because of a great cause of

�� anxiety have I come to thee, and because of a disturbing

vision 10 have I approached. And now, my

�� father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a

son, the like of whom there is none, and

�� his nature is not like man's nature, and the colour of his body

is whiter than snow and redder than the

�� bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white

wool, and his eyes are like the rays of

�� the sun, and he opened his eyes and 11 thereupon lighted up

the whole house. And he arose in the

�� hands of the midwife, and opened 12 his mouth and blessed

the Lord of heaven. And his father

�� Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe

that he was sprung from him, but that he

�� was in the likeness of the angels of heaven; and behold I

have come to thee that thou mayest make

�� known to me the truth.' 13 And I, Enoch, answered and said

unto him: 'The Lord will do a new thing

�� on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and

make known to thee that in the generation of

�� my father Jared some of the angels of heaven 14

transgressed the word of the Lord. And behold they

�� commit sin and transgress the law, and have united

themselves with women and commit sin with them,

�� and have married some of them, 17 and have begot children

by them. And they shall produce on the

�� earth giants not according to the spirit, but according to the

flesh, and there shall be a great

�� punishment on the earth, and the 15 earth shall be cleansed

from all impurity. Yea, there shall come a

�� great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a

deluge and 16 a great destruction for one

�� year. And this son who has been born unto you shall be left

on the earth, and his three children shall

�� be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth 18

shall die [he and his sons shall be saved].

�� And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has

been born is in truth his son, and call his

�� name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons

shall be saved from the destruction, which

�� shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the

unrighteousness, which shall be

�� consummated on the earth in his days. 19 And after that there

shall be still more unrighteousness than

�� that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the

mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the

�� Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read

(them) in the heavenly tablets.

�� 107

�� 1 And I saw written on them that generation upon generation

shall transgress, till a generation of

�� righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin

passes away from the earth, and all 2

�� manner of good comes upon it. And now, my son, go and

make known to thy son Lamech that this 3

�� son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this) is

no lie.' And when Methuselah had heard

�� the words of his father Enoch ‑‑for he had shown to him

everything in secret‑‑ he returned and

�� showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah;

for he will comfort the earth after all the

�� destruction.

�� 108

�� 1 Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah

and for those who will come after him, 2

�� and keep the law in the last days. Ye who have done good

shall wait for those days till an end is 3

�� made of those who work evil; and an end of the might of the

transgressors. And wait ye indeed till sin

�� has passed away, for their names shall be blotted out of the

book of life and out of the holy books,

�� and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits

shall be slain, and they shall cry and make

�� lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the

fire shall they 4 burn; for there is no earth

�� there. And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for

by reason of its depth I could not look

�� over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like

shining 5 mountains circling and

�� sweeping to and fro. And I asked one of the holy angels who

was with me and said unto him: 'What is

�� this shining thing? for it is not a heaven but only the flame of

a blazing 6 fire, and the voice of weeping

�� and crying and lamentation and strong pain.' And he said unto

me: 'This place which thou seest‑here

�� are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those

who work wickedness, and of those who

�� pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the

mouth 7 of the prophets ‑(even) the things

�� that shall be. For some of them are written and inscribed

above in the heaven, in order that the angels

�� may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners,

and the spirits of the humble, and of those

�� who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed 8 by

God; and of those who have been put to

�� shame by wicked men: Who love God and loved neither gold

nor silver nor any of the good things

�� which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to 9 torture.

Who, since they came into being,

�� longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a

passing breath, and lived accordingly, and

�� the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were 10 found

pure so that they should bless His name.

�� And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in

the books. And he hath assigned them

�� their recompense, because they have been found to be such

as loved heaven more than their life in the

�� world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked

men, and experienced abuse and reviling

�� from them and were put to shame, 11 yet they blessed Me.

And now I will summon the spirits of the

�� good who belong to the generation of light, and I will

transform those who were born in darkness,

�� who in the flesh were not recompensed 12 with such honour

as their faithfulness deserved. And I will

�� bring forth in shining light those who 13 have loved My holy

name, and I will seat each on the throne of

�� his honour. And they shall be resplendent for times without

number; for righteousness is the judgement

�� of God; for to the faithful 14 He will give faithfulness in the

habitation of upright paths. And they shall

�� see those who were 15 born in darkness led into darkness,

while the righteous shall be resplendent.

�� And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent,

and they indeed will go where days and

�� seasons are prescribed for them.'

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